Check SemVer Increased Action

This action checks that the Semantic Version of the software has increased relative to a previous version.

More info on SemVer is available here.

Inputs

current-version

Required (string) - The current Semantic Version of your application. The workflow will fail if the string supplied is not a valid SemVer or you have supplied a pre-release version an allow-pre-releases has not been set to True.

previous-version

Required (string) - The previous version of your application. The workflow will fail if the string supplied is not a valid SemVer.

allow-pre-release

(True | False) - Determines if the current-version can be a pre-release version. Defaults to False.

Outputs

is-version-increased

(True | False) -True if the current-version is higher than the previous-version. False if the current-version is less than or equal to the previous-version

Example usage

name: front-end-checks

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      target-branch:
        required: true
        type: string

jobs:
  check-package-version:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: get-current-version
        id: current-version
        uses: ...

      - name: get-previous-version
        id: previous-version
        uses: ...

      - name: Check Version
        uses: aleoyakas/check-semver-increased-action@v1
        id: check-version
        with:
          current-version: ${{ steps.current-version.outputs.version }}
          previous-version: ${{ steps.previous-version.outputs.version }}

      - name: Echo Success
        if: steps.action.outputs.is-version-increased == 'true'
        run: echo Version has increased