A tooling and language agnostic utility to calculate the next semantic version based on the Conventional Commits since the prior version. Supports monorepos.
Conventional Commits Next Version calculates the next semantic version based on the Conventional Commits since the prior version.
The range of commits start excusively from the commit specified by either the arguments --from-commit-hash or --from-reference, till inclusively of HEAD.
Any commits in this range which conform to the Conventional Commits v1.0.0 specification are used to calculate the next Semantic Versioning, based upon the initial Semantic Versioning provided via the argument --from-version.
There are two modes of calculating the next semantic version, consecutive mode and batch mode.
In consecutive mode each Git commit in the Conventional Commits specification is applied to Semantic Versioning calculation in chronological order.
Consecutive mode is the default, so no additional flags or configuration needs supplied.
e.g.
git clone https://github.com/yargs/yargs.git
cd yargs
git checkout 6014e39bca3a1e8445aa0fb2a435f6181e344c45
RUST_LOG=trace conventional_commits_next_version --from-commit-hash c36c571e4e15dfe26be1d919e4991fb6ab6ed9fd --from-version 15.2.0
Using the environment variable RUST_LOG we can enable more detailed logging, so we can see the logic of consecutive mode.
DEBUG conventional_commits_next_version::model::commits::commit > "fix: address ambiguity between nargs of 1 and requiresArg (#1572)\n\n" matches a patch Semantic Versioning increment commit message.
From the logs we can see that the commit a5edc328ecb3f90d1ba09cfe70a0040f68adf50a has the Conventional Commits type of fix.
The fix type will cause the increment of the initial Semantic Versioning provided via --from-version from 15.2.0 to 15.2.1.
DEBUG conventional_commits_next_version::model::commits::commit > "feat(yargs-parser): introduce single-digit boolean aliases (#1576)\n\n" matches a minor Semantic Versioning increment commit message.
From the logs we can see that the commit 3af7f04cdbfcbd4b3f432aca5144d43f21958c39 has the Conventional Commits type of feat.
The feat type encountered will increment the minor Semantic Versioning from 15.2.1 to 15.3.0.
DEBUG conventional_commits_next_version::model::commits::commit > "feat: add usage for single-digit boolean aliases (#1580)\n\n" matches a minor Semantic Versioning increment commit message.
From the logs we can see that the commit 6014e39bca3a1e8445aa0fb2a435f6181e344c451 has the Conventional Commits type of feat.
The feat type will increment the minor Semantic Versioning from 15.3.0 to 15.4.0.
There are no more Conventional Commits which will increment the Semantic Versioning, so the calculated Semantic Versioning is printed to standard out.
15.4.0
In batch mode the largest Semantic Versioning increment determined by the Conventional Commits type across all the commits is the only increment applied. Batch mode is useful for feature branches, if it has multiple types all being merged together.
Batch mode is enabled via the --batch-commits flag.
e.g.
git clone https://github.com/yargs/yargs.git
cd yargs
git checkout 6014e39bca3a1e8445aa0fb2a435f6181e344c45
RUST_LOG=trace conventional_commits_next_version --from-commit-hash c36c571e4e15dfe26be1d919e4991fb6ab6ed9fd --from-version 15.2.0 --batch-commits
Using the environment variable RUST_LOG we can see more detailed logs, to see how batch mode behaves differently.
DEBUG conventional_commits_next_version::model::commits::commit > "feat(yargs-parser): introduce single-digit boolean aliases (#1576)\n\n" matches a minor Semantic Versioning increment commit message.
DEBUG conventional_commits_next_version::model::commits::commit > "feat: add usage for single-digit boolean aliases (#1580)\n\n" matches a minor Semantic Versioning increment commit message.
The largest increment is a minor Semantic Versioning increment, because of the two commits 3af7f04cdbfcbd4b3f432aca5144d43f21958c39 and 6014e39bca3a1e8445aa0fb2a435f6181e344c45 with feat as the Conventional Commits' type.
The minor Semantic Versioning increment increases the initial Semantic Versioning from 15.2.0 to 15.3.0, which is then printed to standard out.
15.3.0
Additional command line flags can be passed to alter what and how the next Semantic Versioning is calculated.
| Flag | | |---------------------------|-| | --batch-commits | In batch mode the largest Semantic Versioning increment determined by the Conventional Commits type across all the commits is the only increment applied. | | --current-version | This Semantic Versioning is asserted to be equal or larger than the calculated Semantic Versioning. The calculated Semantic Versioning is not printed to standard out. If the assertion is not met then it exits with a non zero exit code. | | --monorepo | Monorepo usage is supported, the version is calculated only from commits altering the specified directory. |
When looking for a repository the Git environment variables are respected.
When $GIT_DIR is set, it takes precedence and Conventional Commits Next Version begins searching for a repository in the directory specified in $GIT_DIR.
When $GIT_DIR is not set, Conventional Commits Next Version searches for a repository beginning in the current directory.
The crates pretty_env_logger and log are used to provide logging.
The environment variable RUST_LOG can be used to set the logging level.
See https://crates.io/crates/prettyenvlogger for more detailed documentation.
See Compiling via Cargo for more details about installing via Cargo.
Note - This example downloads the latest 2.* version.
conventional-commits-next-version-checking:
stage: conventional-commits-next-version-checking
image: rust
before_script:
- cargo install conventional_commits_next_version --version ^2
script:
# Get current version and latest tag.
- CURRENT_VERSION=`grep '^version = "[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*"$' Cargo.toml | cut -d '"' -f 2`
# Get latest tag.
- LATEST_TAG=`git describe --tags --abbrev=0`
# Check latest tag is in semantic versioning.
- echo $LATEST_TAG | grep "^[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*$"
# Check current vs expected.
- /usr/local/cargo/bin/conventional_commits_next_version --batch-commits --from-reference $LATEST_TAG --from-version $LATEST_TAG --current-version $CURRENT_VERSION
rules:
- if: $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_ID
See Downloading Binary for more details about Binary downloads.
Note - This example downloads version 2.0.0.
conventional-commits-next-version-checking:
stage: conventional-commits-next-version-checking
image: rust
before_script:
- wget -q -O tmp.zip "https://gitlab.com/DeveloperC/conventional_commits_next_version/-/jobs/artifacts/2.0.0/download?job=release-binary-compiling-x86_64-linux-musl" && unzip tmp.zip && rm tmp.zip
script:
# Get current version and latest tag.
- CURRENT_VERSION=`grep '^version = "[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*"$' Cargo.toml | cut -d '"' -f 2`
# Get latest tag.
- LATEST_TAG=`git describe --tags --abbrev=0`
# Check latest tag is in semantic versioning.
- echo $LATEST_TAG | grep "^[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*$"
# Check current vs expected.
- ./conventional_commits_next_version --batch-commits --from-reference $LATEST_TAG --from-version $LATEST_TAG --current-version $CURRENT_VERSION
rules:
- if: $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_ID
Statically linked compiled binaries are available for download. Visit the releases page at https://gitlab.com/DeveloperC/conventionalcommitsnext_version/-/releases to see all the releases, the release notes contains links to binary downloads for various architectures.
If you do not trust the provided binaries another option is to compile your own and then make it available for remote download, so your CICD etc can then download it.
Checkout the code repository locally, change into the repository's directory and then build via Cargo.
Using the --release flag produces an optimised binary but takes longer to compile.
git clone git@gitlab.com:DeveloperC/conventional_commits_next_version.git
cd conventional_commits_next_version/
cargo build --release
The compiled binary is present in target/release/conventional_commits_next_version.
Cargo is the Rust package manager, the install sub-command pulls from crates.io and then compiles the binary locally, placing the compiled binary at $HOME/.cargo/bin/conventional_commits_next_version.
cargo install conventional_commits_next_version
By default it installs the latest version at the time of execution.
You can specify a specific version to install using the --version argument.
For certain environments such as CICD etc you may want to pin the version.
e.g.
cargo install conventional_commits_next_version --version 2.0.0
Rather than pinning to a specific version you can specify the major or minor version.
e.g.
cargo install conventional_commits_next_version --version ^2
Will download the latest 2.* release whether that is 2.0.7 or 2.6.0.
The unit test suite has several parameterised tests testing the Conventional Commits v1.0.0 format parsing. Cargo is used to set up and run all the unit tests.
cargo test
To ensure correctness as there are various out of process dependencies, the project has an End-to-End behaviour driven test suite using the Behave framework (https://github.com/behave/behave).
To run the test suite you need to - Compile the Convention Commits Next Version binary. - Install Python3. - Install Behave. - Execute Behave.
Note - You can't use --release as the test suite uses target/debug/conventional_commits_next_version.
cargo build
cd end-to-end-tests/
virtualenv -p python3 .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
behave
To report an issue or request a new feature use https://gitlab.com/DeveloperC/conventionalcommitsnext_version/-/issues.