Tagging 48 repositories with full semver history

mass tagging all repos

Overdue housekeeping. Every repo in /Volumes/Storage/Developer/Git got an automated semver pass — one tag per conventional commit, starting from the last existing tag (or v0.1.0 if none). Feats bump minor, fixes bump patch, rewrites were handled manually.

scope

• 48 repos tagged, 1,835 tags total
• ~1,600 new semver tags created
• Big winners: nix (328), pkgs (295), website (626 — already done in a prior pass), malachite (75), tourmaline (72)
• 5 repos had no conventional feat/fix commits and were skipped
• Existing tags respected — no duplicates

date tags

15 repos use a vYYYY-MM-DD date-tag format (mostly deployed apps). For those, I backfilled one tag per unique commit date going back to the repo's origin — about 206 new date tags.

the process

A bash script walks each repo's git log --reverse, matches feat: / fix: prefixes, bumps the version sequentially, and checks tag --points-at to avoid redundancies. Pushes went to origin, github, tangled, and mirror remotes.

The date-tag variant uses git log --format="%ad %H" --date=short with awk '!seen[$1]++' to grab the last commit of each date, then tags it as v<date>.

results

All remotes up to date. No more commit spans without tags. If I ever need to bisect or reference a specific state, there's now a version or a date to grab.