🏷️ commit_gh: Because Git Tags Shouldn't Be That Hard"

“A no-nonsense CLI that automates commits, tags, and version bumps — and finally makes semantic versioning behave like it should.”

Automation should automate itself — and versioning shouldn't feel like a tax.

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You ever forget to tag a Git commit, or bump the version number manually, or mistype something in the changelog?

Yeah — me too.

That’s why I built commit_gh.

It's a Bash-based CLI that:

• Commits your changes ✅
• Tags them semantically ✅
• Pushes everything ✅
• And verifies it all actually worked ✅

Because I was done losing minutes to versioning drama.

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🚀 Quickstart

brew install raymonepping/commit-gh-cli/commit-gh-cli

Then just:

commit_gh --bump patch --verify

This bumps the version, commits changes, creates a Git tag like v1.2.3, and pushes it to origin/main.

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🔧 What It Does (in one command)

commit_gh --bump patch --verify

1. Checks if your working tree is clean 🧼
2. Pulls + rebases from main 🔄
3. Commits and pushes any changes 📦
4. Bumps the patch version via .version (or creates one if missing) 🧮
5. Tags and pushes the new version to Git 🏷️
6. Verifies everything (branch, tag, version file) ✅

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🧰 Why I Built This

Because git commit is easy.
But everything around it — tagging, syncing, bumping — gets annoying fast in real workflows.

I wanted:

• A single command to do it all
• Safety checks before publishing
• Homebrew installability for all my CLIs

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✅ Benefits

• Semantic versioning baked in
• Verification mode: --verify
• Self-healing .version file
• GitHub tag sync
• Designed for CI/CD or local use
• Easily extendable

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📦 Want to Package Your Own CLI?

I wrote this to automate versioning for my own Homebrew-packaged tools like:

• folder_tree 🗂️
• repository_audit 🔍
• repository_backup 🛡️

Now commit_gh powers all of them — keeping tags, versions, and changelogs in sync.

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🤖 TL;DR

If you’ve ever run git tag, realized you forgot to bump the version, re-tagged, then force-pushed… this tool is for you.

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Check it out:
🔗 GitHub – commit_gh_cli
🍺 brew install raymonepping/commit-gh-cli/commit-gh-cli
📖 commit_gh --help

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Built for engineers. By an engineer who got tired of typing the same commands over and over.