Create a tag on every merge

Question

I would like to create a script that

- reads the last git tag with version info in it

- write a new tag at the merge with an incremented version number

Is this possible, and please give pointers as to how it would be accomplished. I know we did this at a previous company. but maybe they were using BitBucket Server.

Paul Montero · Answer

Sorry but this does not help. In gitbub/gitlab/circleci exists packages  with a few lines to add that.

I researched looking for some easy way to increase a tag version on merges to master but there is nothing close to it. we have to create our own scripts for something that other services does it with a few of lines.

I hope pipelines can include these kind helpers.

Mark Angelo Cerezo · Answer

Hi @Mike Wilson,

I do believe you can explore doing this using Bitbucket Cloud Pipelines.
Bitbucket Cloud Pipelines will allow you to trigger Pipelines builds on pull requests and from there, you can perform your desired automation script (e.g. to read and write tags)

Here are some links that might help:

* Configure bitbucket-pipelines.yml - pull-requests
* Get started with Bitbucket Pipelines

Hope it helps and do let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,
Mark C