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🌻 CLI tool to draft a GitHub Release for the next semantic version

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# bump :sunflower:

Simple, cross-platform CLI tool to help draft a [GitHub Release] for the next
[semantic version] of your project.

- Zero runtime dependencies (not even git).
- Auto-detects current repo if in cloned repository.
- Can work without any API authorization at all.

This is intentionally designed to work with the GitHub web site interface for
drafting releases, and does not even require you to have the source code checked
out locally.

[GitHub Release]: https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-releases
[semantic version]: https://semver.org

## Usage

```
$ bump --help
Usage: bump <owner> <repo>

If you are in a git repository that has been cloned from GitHub, owner and
repo args can be omitted, in which case they will be inferred from the remote
origin.

Flags:
    --no-open           Do not automatically open publish URL in browser.
    --verbose, -v       Verbose output.
    --version           Print version and exit.
    --help              Print help and exit.

Environment:
    $BUMP_NO_OPEN       Global default for --no-open
    $BUMP_VERBOSE       Global default for --verbose
    $GITHUB_TOKEN       Optional, will use if present to access private repos
```

Doing this:

![animation](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mroth/bump/main/docs/demo.svg)

:arrow_right: Automatically opens this in your browser:

![release-page-ss](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mroth/bump/main/docs/release-draft.png)

Where you can edit your release notes before clicking **Publish Release**.

Afterwards, if you have a local checkout of the repository, you may wish to do `git
fetch` to pull all remote tags to your system. :eyes:

## Installation

Download from the [Releases page](https://github.com/mroth/bump/releases) and
put somewhere in your `$PATH`.

Homebrew users can `brew install mroth/tap/bump`.

## Comparison

Unlike many of these release tools, bump is currently intended to support
workflows where rather than pushing tags locally, new releases are primarily
drafted via the Github Releases web interface (all the easier to drag your
animated GIFs in, and whatnot.)

This may not be the correct workflow for your project! In particular, it
works best in environments where there is not a version number file that is stored
in version control itself (such as NPM, Cargo), but rather those where the git
tags themselves manage the versioning (Go modules, sbt-git, etc.)

Some related tools I found in looking at this you may wish to consider as
alternatives:

- [sindresorhus/np] For NPM projects, this is really good. We've adopted it for
  all our JS native projects at @openlawteam, in conjunction with
  `--no-publish`.
- [goreleaser] For Go projects, this tool is quite nice. In fact, it works well
  in partnership with bump: let bump manage your releases and changelog, and have
  goreleaser running in CI to build and add the binaries to the release. (See
  the configuration for this project.)
- [zeit/release] Fairly close to what we wanted, but it does a git tag/commit
  and pushes to GitHub before drafting the release, and requires API
  authorization. Javascript based.

[sindresorhus/np]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/np
[goreleaser]: https://goreleaser.com
[zeit/release]: https://github.com/zeit/release

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