[anonymous_sorry]

> One complexity with that that comes to mind is how do you then track whether you've already bumped minor/major since last release and so don't need to again?

I wonder if it really matters that release version numbers only increment by one. If not, just bump anyway when appropriate change is made - no need to check.

In practice I think the problems would be a) having to be very disciplined about this on every commit, rather than having a reminder to consider it as part of a release process, and b) ordering version numbers from different branches when merging to mainline

[OJFord]

True, that'd be a decent way to approach it. Though at that point perhaps you may as well actually release all the versions too.

Or you could bump every time as you describe, but on every major/minor bump make sure the parent commit is released first (which would be >=1 commits since the last one and have at least a patch bump). And I suppose you'd never need to bump patch if that was just a lone thing that happened post-release in prep for the next.