NAME

       Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::NextVersion - provide a version number by bumping the last git release tag

VERSION

       version 2.025

SYNOPSIS

       In your dist.ini:

           [Git::NextVersion]
           first_version = 0.001       ; this is the default
           version_by_branch = 0       ; this is the default
           version_regexp  = ^v(.+)$   ; this is the default

DESCRIPTION

       This does the VersionProvider role.  It finds the last version number from your Git tags, increments it
       using Version::Next, and uses the result as the "version" parameter for your distribution.

       In addition, when making a release, it ensures that the version being released has not already been
       tagged.  (The Git::Tag plugin has a similar check, but Git::Tag only checks for an exact match on the
       tag.  Since Git::NextVersion knows how to extract version numbers from tags, it can find duplicates that
       Git::Tag would miss.)

       The plugin accepts the following options:

       •   "first_version" - if the repository has no tags at all, this version is used as the first version for
           the distribution.  It defaults to "0.001".

       •   "version_by_branch" - if true, consider only tags on the current branch when looking for the previous
           version.   If  you  have  a maintenance branch for stable releases and a development branch for trial
           releases, you should set this to 1.  (You'll also need git version 1.6.1 or later.)  The  default  is
           to  look  at all tags, because finding the tags reachable from a branch is a more expensive operation
           than simply listing all tags.

       •   "version_regexp" - regular expression that matches a tag containing a version.  It must  capture  the
           version  into  $1.   Defaults  to  ^v(.+)$  which  matches the default "tag_format" from the Git::Tag
           plugin.  If you change "tag_format", you must set a corresponding "version_regexp".

       You can also set the "V" environment variable to override the new version.  This is useful if you need to
       bump to a specific version.  For example, if the last tag is 0.005 and you want to jump to 1.000 you  can
       set V = 1.000.

         $ V=1.000 dzil release

       Because  tracing  history  takes  time,  if you use the "version_by_branch" option, Git::NextVersion will
       create a .gitnxtver_cache file in your repository to track the highest version number that is an ancestor
       of the HEAD revision.  You should add .gitnxtver_cache to your .gitignore file.  It will automatically be
       pruned from the distribution.

AUTHOR

       Jerome Quelin

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Jerome Quelin.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  the  Perl  5
       programming language system itself.

perl v5.20.1                                       2014-10-25              Dist::Zilla::P...it::NextVersion(3pm)