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diff --git a/doc/cli/npm-version.md b/doc/cli/npm-version.md index 6bd550659..2932516bb 100644 --- a/doc/cli/npm-version.md +++ b/doc/cli/npm-version.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ npm-version(1) -- Bump a package version ## SYNOPSIS - npm version [<newversion> | major | minor | patch | premajor | preminor | prepatch | prerelease] + npm version [<newversion> | major | minor | patch | premajor | preminor | prepatch | prerelease | from-git] 'npm [-v | --version]' to print npm version 'npm view <pkg> version' to view a package's published version @@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ npm-version(1) -- Bump a package version Run this in a package directory to bump the version and write the new data back to `package.json` and, if present, `npm-shrinkwrap.json`. -The `newversion` argument should be a valid semver string, *or* a -valid second argument to semver.inc (one of `patch`, `minor`, `major`, -`prepatch`, `preminor`, `premajor`, `prerelease`). In the second case, +The `newversion` argument should be a valid semver string, a +valid second argument to [semver.inc](https://github.com/npm/node-semver#functions) (one of `patch`, `minor`, `major`, +`prepatch`, `preminor`, `premajor`, `prerelease`), or `from-git`. In the second case, the existing version will be incremented by 1 in the specified field. +`from-git` will try to read the latest git tag, and use that as the new npm version. If run in a git repo, it will also create a version commit and tag. This behavior is controlled by `git-tag-version` (see below), and can |