[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.