Semver Gradle Plugin

This Semver Gradle plugin provides a simple approach to adding semantic versioning to your gradle project using git history regardless of git strategies.

At a glance, this plugin provides support for the following features:

• Stages (rc, beta, stable, snapshot, etc.)
• Modifiers (auto, patch, minor, major)
• Branch-based version calculations
• Overriding the version
• Setting an alternate initial version
• Specifying alternate main and development branch names
• Appending build metadata (format: +<yyyyMMddHHmmss>)
• Building when
  • No git repository is present
  • No git tags are present
  • No remote branch is present
  • Merging, rebasing, cherry-picking, bisecting, reverting, or in a detached head state

Installation

The following can be added to any of the following:

• settings.gradle.kts (recommended)
  • This will automatically apply the version to all projects
• build.gradle.kts (root project)
  • This will only automatically apply the version to the root project
• build.gradle.kts (subproject)
  • This will only automatically apply the version to the subproject

If the semantic version is targeting the entire project, it’s recommended to add this to the settings.gradle.kts file.

plugins {
    id("com.figure.gradle.semver") version "<current_version>"
}

Configuration

Important!

The most minimal configuration is to not provide any configuration at all. This will use the default settings and will generate a version based on the git history.

However, configurations exist to allow for more control over the versioning calculation process.

// For older versions of gradle, you may need to import the configuration method
import com.figure.gradle.semver.semver

// This is purely for example purposes
semver {
    // Default: `settings.settingsDir`
    rootProjectDir = settingsDir.parent

    // Default: `0.0.0` (first build will generate `0.0.1`)
    initialVersion = "1.0.0"

    // No "default", but the plugin will search in order for:
    // `main`, `master
    mainBranch = "trunk"

    // No "default", but the plugin will search in order for:
    // `develop`, `devel`, `dev` 
    developmentBranch = "development"

    // Default: `never`
    // Options: `never`, `always`, `locally`
    appendBuildMetadata = "locally"
}