This Go program makes it easy to increment a package version number and promote that number to GitHub.

The workflow is simple:

• Make changes to a PNPM package project.
• Run bump-version [commit message]

bump-version:

• increments the version number
• stages all files
• commits changes
• creates a new tag with the new version number
• commits the tag
• pushes the commit and the new tag

Because this utility is aimed primarily at managing project version numbers for GitHub-hosted Node packages, it also:

• creates a PNPM command line like this pnpm add https://github.com/rogerpence/rp-utils#v1.0.16 and puts it on the clipboard. This makes it easy to update consuming projects.
• This command line is also written to the console.

The GitHub account name is hardcoded in the program's githubAccount variable.

Example

bump-version [--dryrun] <commit comments>

The commit comments are required. --dryrun shows the results without changing anything.

Run directly

go run bump-version.go

Or build and run

go build bump-version.go
.\bump-version.exe

Copy bump-version.exe to a utilities folder

The deploy.ps1 PowerShell script is for copying the bump-version.exe to a utilities folder that is in Windows' path.

Go lets you build little utilities like this very quickly--which Python, Node, and PowerShell also do. Go's ace up its sleeve is that it makes it dead simple to create and deploy a Go executable. Put the executable in directory in your path and bump-version is always available.

(PS: I wrote this utility just before I started using Bun (which can compile Typescript to an executable). Oh, well, I got to play with Go doing this.