tagrelease is a simple tool to generate release/build identifiers from git tag names in an automated way.

tagrelease requires Go 1.11 or newer to compile.

Release binaries are available on the releases page

options:

--help

prints help.

--beta {list of strings}

provide list of branches recognized as trunked, separated with comma, all releases on these branches will be marked as B (beta), except tagged ones (default trunk)

--rc {strings}

provide list of branches recognized as mainstream, all releases on these branches will be marked as RC (release candidate), except tagged ones (default master)

--debug

enable debug output (to stderr)

-f, --format {string}

select output format (default release):

• release - alias for pep440
• pep440 - output a release string according to PEP440 format: {major}.{minor}.{patch}[{kind(rc|b|a)}{diff}][+{revshort}] example: 0.1.0+57a182a8, 0.8.2a84+57a182a8
• semver - semver release format: {major}.{minor}.{patch} example: 1.2.3
• short - format: {major}.{minor} example: 1.2
• major - output only a major version
• minor - output only a minor version
• patch - output only a patch version
• revision - full git revision (40 chars) example: 57a182a871e042022c22b14ad6314b0618b582f8
• revshort - short git revision (8 chars) example: 57a182a8

-i, --increment {string}

select increment strategy (default upstream)

• major - increment to next major version ({major+1}.0.0)
• minor - increment to next minor version ({major}.{minor+1}.0
• patch - increment to next patch version {major}.{minor}.{patch+1}
• upstream - increment to next patch if present, to next minor otherwise
• never - do not increment anything

-o, --output {string}

select output target (default is stdout):

• {file-path} - if not exists, will be created, otherwise will be truncated
• - - for stdout

-d, --workdir {string}

select working directory to look for repository (default is current directory - .)