feat: add config flag 'force-bump-patch'

Author: timoknapp

pkg/config/config.go

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	Dry                             bool
 	AllowInitialDevelopmentVersions bool
 	AllowNoChanges                  bool
+	ForceBumpPatch                  bool
 	MaintainedVersion               string
 	PrependChangelog                bool
 	DownloadPlugins                 bool
@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ func NewConfig(cmd *cobra.Command) (*Config, error) {
 		Dry:                             mustGetBool(cmd, "dry"),
 		AllowInitialDevelopmentVersions: mustGetBool(cmd, "allow-initial-development-versions"),
 		AllowNoChanges:                  mustGetBool(cmd, "allow-no-changes"),
+		ForceBumpPatch:                  mustGetBool(cmd, "force-bump-patch"),
 		MaintainedVersion:               viper.GetString("maintainedVersion"),
 		PrependChangelog:                mustGetBool(cmd, "prepend-changelog"),
 		DownloadPlugins:                 mustGetBool(cmd, "download-plugins"),
@@ -177,6 +179,7 @@ func InitConfig(cmd *cobra.Command) error {
 	cmd.Flags().Bool("dry", false, "do not create release")
 	cmd.Flags().Bool("allow-initial-development-versions", false, "semantic-release will start your initial development release at 0.1.0")
 	cmd.Flags().Bool("allow-no-changes", false, "exit with code 0 if no changes are found, useful if semantic-release is automatically run")
+	cmd.Flags().Bool("force-bump-patch", false, "increments the patch version if no changes are found")
 	cmd.Flags().Bool("prepend-changelog", false, "if the changelog file already exist the new changelog is prepended")
 	cmd.Flags().Bool("download-plugins", false, "downloads all required plugins if needed")
 	cmd.Flags().Bool("show-progress", false, "shows the plugin download progress")

pkg/semrel/semrel.go

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func calculateChange(commits []*Commit, latestRelease *Release) *Change {
 	return change
 }
 
-func applyChange(rawVersion string, rawChange *Change, allowInitialDevelopmentVersions bool) string {
+func applyChange(rawVersion string, rawChange *Change, allowInitialDevelopmentVersions bool, forceBumpPatchVersion bool) string {
 	version := semver.MustParse(rawVersion)
 	change := &Change{
 		Major: rawChange.Major,
@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ func applyChange(rawVersion string, rawChange *Change, allowInitialDevelopmentVe
 		change.Minor = true
 	}
 	if !change.Major && !change.Minor && !change.Patch {
-		return ""
+		if forceBumpPatchVersion {
+			change.Patch = true
+		} else {
+			return ""
+		}
 	}
 	var newVersion semver.Version
 	preRel := version.Prerelease()
@@ -67,5 +71,5 @@ func applyChange(rawVersion string, rawChange *Change, allowInitialDevelopmentVe
 }
 
 func GetNewVersion(conf *config.Config, commits []*Commit, latestRelease *Release) string {
-	return applyChange(latestRelease.Version, calculateChange(commits, latestRelease), conf.AllowInitialDevelopmentVersions)
+	return applyChange(latestRelease.Version, calculateChange(commits, latestRelease), conf.AllowInitialDevelopmentVersions, conf.ForceBumpPatch)
 }