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# Releasing urfave/gimme | ||
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Releasing small batches often is [backed by | ||
research](https://itrevolution.com/accelerate-book/) as part of the | ||
virtuous cycles that keep teams and products healthy. | ||
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To that end, the overall goal of the release process is to send | ||
changes out into the world as close to the time the commits were | ||
merged to the `main` branch as possible. In this way, the community | ||
of humans depending on this library are able to make use of the | ||
changes they need **quickly**, which means they shouldn't have to | ||
maintain long-lived forks of the project, which means they can get | ||
back to focusing on the work on which they want to focus. This also | ||
means that the @urfave/gimme team should be able to focus on | ||
delivering a steadily improving product with significantly eased | ||
ability to associate bugs and regressions with specific releases. | ||
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## Process | ||
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- Release versions follow [semantic versioning](https://semver.org/) | ||
- Releases are associated with **signed, annotated git tags**[^1]. | ||
- Release notes are **automatically generated**[^1]. | ||
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In the `main` or `v2-maint` branch, the current version is always | ||
available via: | ||
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```sh | ||
git describe --always --dirty --tags | ||
``` | ||
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**NOTE**: if the version reported contains `-dirty`, this is | ||
indicative of a "dirty" work tree, which is not a great state for | ||
creating a new release tag. Seek help from @urfave/gimme teammates. | ||
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For example, given a described version of `v1.7.1-7-g65c7203` and a | ||
diff of `v1.7.1...` that contains only bug fixes, the next version | ||
should be `v1.7.2`: | ||
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- Update `GIMME_VERSION` in [gimme](https://github.com/urfave/gimme/blob/main/gimme) via pull request. | ||
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- Once that is approved and merged make a tag locally: | ||
```sh | ||
TAG_VERSION=v1.7.2 make tag | ||
git push origin v1.7.2 | ||
``` | ||
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- Open the [the new release page](https://github.com/urfave/gimme/releases/new) | ||
- At the top of the form, click on the `Choose a tag` select control and select `v1.7.2` | ||
- In the `Write` tab below, click the `Auto-generate release notes` button | ||
- At the bottom of the form, click the `Publish release` button | ||
- :white_check_mark: you're done! | ||
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[^1]: This was not always true. There are many **lightweight git | ||
tags** present in the repository history. And releases with the wrong version | ||
number in source code. |
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