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![Commits Graph](versioning.drawio.svg?raw=true)
_Unless the current commit is already tagged, the version produced by this action will be one value ahead of the last tag._
## Major and Minor Versions
The commit messages for the span of commits from the last tag are checked for the
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![Commits Graph](minor.drawio.svg?raw=true)
## A Note Regarding Tags
## Tags on Previous Commits
Adding a tag to an older commit changes the implicit version of commits since the
tagged commit. If a tag is assigned to an older commit, the commits that come after
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- *version_tag* is a string identifier that would be used to tag the current commit as the "released" version. Typically this would only be used to generate a Git tag name.
- *changed* indicates whether there was a change since the last version if change_path was specified. If no `change_path` was specified this value will always be true since the entire repo is considered. (It is possible to create a commit with no changes, but the Git cli rejects this by default and this case is not considered here)
There are two types of "version" string, one is the semantic version output that can be used to identify a build and can include prerelease data and metadata specific to the commit such as `v2.0.1-pre001+cf6e75` (you would produce this string yourself using the version information from this action plus whatever metadata you wanted to add), the other is the tag version string, which identifies a specific commit as being a specific version.
## Using Multiple Versions in the Same Repository
It is possible to create additional versions for multiple project co-existing
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with:
fetch-depth: 0
```
## Tips for Getting Started
- Unless the current commit is already tagged, the version produced by this action will be one value ahead of the last tag.
- There are two types of "version" string, one is the semantic version output that can be used to identify a build and can include prerelease data and metadata specific to the commit such as `v2.0.1-pre001+cf6e75`, the other is the tag version string, which identifies a specific commit as being a specific version.