🐛 util/version: Add option to compare without prereleases

[SubhasmitaSw]

What this PR does / why we need it:
/kind bug

Rif #4938

cc @sbueringer

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[sbueringer]

/ok-to-test

[sbueringer]

/retest

[sbueringer]

/retitle 🐛 util/version: Add option to compare without prereleases

[sbueringer]

@SubhasmitaSw Thank you!!
Please squash the commits, then we should be good to go/merge :)

(We're using prow in merge mode to be able to generate release notes, so the commits are preserved after merge)

[SubhasmitaSw]

@SubhasmitaSw Thank you!! Please squash the commits, then we should be good to go/merge :)

(We're using prow in merge mode to be able to generate release notes, so the commits are preserved after merge)

Thank you @sbueringer for helping through.

[sbueringer]

Sure, no problem :)

/lgtm

/assign @fabriziopandini for approval

[killianmuldoon]

/lgtm

[fabriziopandini]

/lgtm
/approve

[fabriziopandini]

/approve cancel
it seems there are lint errrors

[sbueringer]

Hm strange not sure how I missed that, maybe it didn't run before. @SubhasmitaSw Can you please add a godoc comment for the WithoutPreReleases func?

[SubhasmitaSw]

Hm strange not sure how I missed that, maybe it didn't run before. @SubhasmitaSw Can you please add a godoc comment for the WithoutPreReleases func?

sure, and apology for being late.

[sbueringer]

Hm strange not sure how I missed that, maybe it didn't run before. @SubhasmitaSw Can you please add a godoc comment for the WithoutPreReleases func?

sure, and apology for being late.

No worries. Good first issues are intentional not time-critical (most of our other issues are also not time-critical)

/lgtm
/approve

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[sbueringer]

/hold
for golangci-lint results. The workflows were not approved to run before.

[sbueringer]

All green
/hold cancel