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Dev tools · May 14, 2025

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Doxxer – CLI tool for dynamic SemVer versioning using tags

Hi, first time poster here! Wanted to share a small CLI utility in Rust: doxxer! It is a tool for working with Git repositories, more specifically, extracting and calculating current/upcoming semantic versions for your repo's tags. It is heavily inspired by the output from "git describe --tags". Why use anything else then? The output is not fully SemVer compliant and therefore I was modifying it in all my projects separately, which I wanted to avoid. Single binary, single predictable output. It does not currently have pre-built binaries, so you have to install it via cargo, but it's in…

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Doxxer is a command-line tool written in Rust that extracts and calculates semantic versions from Git repository tags. It works similarly to "git describe --tags" but produces fully SemVer-compliant output as a single, predictable binary. Developers working with Git-based versioning can use it to avoid manual version string modifications across projects. Installation requires Cargo, with pre-built binaries planned for future release.

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Hi, first time poster here! Wanted to share a small CLI utility in Rust: doxxer! It is a tool for working with Git repositories, more specifically, extracting and calculating current/upcoming semantic versions for your repo's tags. It is heavily inspired by the output from "git describe --tags". Why use anything else then? The output is not fully SemVer compliant and therefore I was modifying it in all my projects separately, which I wanted to avoid. Single binary, single predictable output. It does not currently have pre-built binaries, so you have to install it via cargo, but it's in the roadmap!

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