versionbump

version-bump.py is a Python 3 script to increment a Maven Snapshot model VERSION.txt file that it semantically versioned. creating a git tag for the release version along the way.

Specifically the script will:

1. Bump the version number from a SNAPSHOT to equivalent release (e.g. from 2.4.4-SNAPSHOT to 2.4.4)
2. Commit a tag with the release version number to git
3. Prompt for the new version number, and update the VERSION.txt file with it

Note:

• The VERSION.txt file must already be part of a git repo.
• The version-bump.py script must be in the repo's directory.
• The script is case insensitive to the version.txt filename
• The file must be utf-8
• Lines starting with a # character will be ignored
• The first line with a version matching the semantic versioning pattern is taken to be the version
• The script will output to stdout a basic overview of the operations it has performed
• If there is an error, the script will exit with a non-zero return code
• An alternative filename for the version file can be specified with the -f <filename> parameter