Standard Version

Some notes on automated versioning and changelog generation using standard-version.

References:

• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version (opens in a new tab)

Pre-Requisites

1. Node.js (opens in a new tab) and npm installed

Generate new release

This will create new tag, generate changelog, and commit

npx standard-version

To sync with remote, make sure to push with follow tags

git push --folow-tags origin <YOUR_BRANCH_NAME>

Skip Lifecycle Steps

When generating using standard-version, there's a flag to configure which lifecycle (bump, changelog, commit, tag) will be skipped.

# to skip commit & tag:
npx standard-version --skip.commit --skip.tag
 
# to skip changelog:
npx standard-version --skip.changelog

References:

• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version#skipping-lifecycle-steps (opens in a new tab)

Override version number

We can override version number using --release-as

npx standard-version --release-as minor
 
# or
npx standard-version --release-as 1.2.3

References:

• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version#release-as-a-target-type-imperatively-npm-version-like (opens in a new tab)

Accidentally Create wrong release or tag?

This are the commands that can be used to revert the changes

git reset HEAD~1
 
git tag -d v1.2.3