Git-Based Semantic Versioning

This action produces a semantic version for a repository using the repository's git history.

This action is designed to facilitate assigning version numbers during a build automatically while publishing version that only increment by one value per release. To accomplish this, the next version number is calculated along with a commit increment indicating the number of commits for this version. The commit messages are inspected to determine the type of version change the next version represents. Including the term (MAJOR) or (MINOR) in the commit message alters the type of change the next version will represent.

Usage

- uses: paulhatch/semantic-version@v1-beta
  with:
    # The branch to count commits on
    branch: "master"
    # The prefix to use to identify tags
    tag_prefix: "v"
    # A string which, if present in a git commit, indicates that a change represents a major (breaking) change
    major_pattern: "(MAJOR)"
    # Same as above except indicating a minor change
    minor_pattern: "(MINOR)"