Use bumpversion

[Zeitsperre]

Bumpversion is a tool we use to get around the problem of tracking/updating versions between releases.

https://github.com/c4urself/bump2version

The API is quite simple: bumpversion major/minor/patch will increment the semver part that you are interested in advancing. I have ported a piece of configuration that allows one to set a version as "release-ready" as well. Bumping major will set minor and patch both to 0, minor will reset patch to 0. It's pretty no-nonsense.

I have disabled tagging and committing by bumpversion since it doesn't play very well with pre-commit and black sometimes, but the process of releasing/tagging is not complicated is not complicated:

In other words, to create a new tagged release:

$ bumpversion minor
$ git commit -m "bumped version to vX.Y+1.Z-beta"
$ bumpversion release
$ git commit -m "bumped version to vX.Y+1.Z"
$ git tag "vX.Y+1.Z"
$ git push (--tags)

[cjauvin]

I like it, it's an excellent idea, thanks! So it's ready to go as is?

[cjauvin]

Your editor seems to be adding an extra space here? Mine is configured to remove it..

[Zeitsperre]

Oh, it's a strange bug with bump2version. It's harmless so long as we don't commit on bump. c4urself/bump2version#124