Get current version

[kdeldycke]

Thanks @coordt for resurrecting the bumpversion project!

Description

I'd like to have a way for the bump-my-version CLI to tell me which version my project is currently at.

What I Did

I naively supposed the --current-version parameter did that, but that's not the case:

$ bump-my-version --current-version
╭─ Error ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Option '--current-version' requires an argument.                                 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯     

I need this for some of my release automation. Before I switched to bump-my-version, I relied on janky code, like shell one-liner:

$ grep "current_version = " ./.bumpversion.cfg | cut -d ' ' -f 3

And its version integrated in GitHub workflow:

jobs:
  my-job:
    steps:
      - name: Extract version
        id: get_version
        run: |
          echo "new_version=$( grep "current_version = " ./.bumpversion.cfg | cut -d ' ' -f 3 )" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
      - name: Print version
        run: |
          echo "New version: ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.new_version }}"

But now with the possibility offered by bump-my-version to source its configuration from multiple location (including the pyproject.toml file), its hard to reproduce the internals of bump-my-version.

That's why having a way to fetch the canonical current version by the way of the CLI would improve reliability.

[coordt]

I've been swamped at work the past few days, but wanted to at least acknowledge you.

This very thing is something I'll be tackling this/next week.

[kdeldycke]

Thanks @coordt for taking the time to answer this. No rush though! bump-my-version is still better than bump2version!

I still have work on my side to integrate it to my workflow. There's also a non-zero chance that I might propose some PR in the future. 🤗

[kdeldycke]

For the record, the original feature request was covered by: c4urself/bump2version#57

[coordt]

I'm post-poning this until I finish the first part of #16 (which I am almost done with). It will make the interface for showing information easier, I think.

[coordt]

@kdeldycke Hey, I just created a pull request for this issue. I'm currently modifying the docs, but if you wanted to take a look, I'd appreciate it.

[kdeldycke]

@kdeldycke Hey, I just created a pull request for this issue. I'm currently modifying the docs, but if you wanted to take a look, I'd appreciate it.

OK, playing with your 15-get-current-version branch right now. Will report my observations on #23.