added current-tag cli arg.

README.md

@@ -281,6 +281,12 @@ Specify multiple messages:
 releaser minor -m "fixed something" -m "added something."
 ```
 
+Specify a tag as the current tag:
+```sh
+releaser major -m "initial release." --current-tag v3.0.0
+```
+Normally, module query git to find the current tag.
+
 ## Default Plugins
 1. **Github**: Github plugin is for creating releases on Github.
 2. **Gitlab**: Gitlab plugin is for creating releases on Gitlab.

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "node-releaser",
-  "version": "0.6.1",
+  "version": "0.7.0",
   "description": "Automated versioning and package publishing tool. Supports semver and calver. Extendible with plugins.",
   "main": "src/index.js",
   "bin": {

src/application/createReleaseByLevel.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 const colors = require('colors/safe')
 
 module.exports = async function createReleaseByLevel(level, ctx) {
-  const {git, config, versioning, plugins, messages, forceCalverFormat} = ctx
+  const {git, config, versioning, plugins, messages, forceCalverFormat, inputCurrentTag} = ctx
 
   git.verifyCodebase()
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ module.exports = async function createReleaseByLevel(level, ctx) {
 
   const scheme = config.get('versioning.scheme')
   const format = config.get('versioning.format')
-  const currentTag = git.getLatestTag(scheme, format, config, versioning)
+  const currentTag = inputCurrentTag || git.getLatestTag(scheme, format, config, versioning)
   const currentTagBare = plugins.getContext().getBareVersion(currentTag)
   const nextTagBare = versioning.generateNextTag(level, currentTagBare, scheme, format, {forceCalverFormat})
   const nextTag = plugins.getContext().prefixTag(nextTagBare)

src/cli.js

@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ function registerLevelPositioners(yargs) {
     describe: 'Commit message. Can be specified multiple times to create multiline commit messages.'
   })
 
+  yargs.positional('current-tag', {
+    type: 'string',
+    default: '',
+    describe: 'Take this as current tag. It won\'t query git for the current tag.'
+  })
+
   yargs.positional('force-calver-format', {
     type: 'boolean',
     default: false,

src/index.js

@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ function lib() {
   async function createReleaseByLevelCLI(level, argv) {
     const messages = Array.isArray(argv.message) ? argv.message : [argv.message]
     const forceCalverFormat = argv.forceCalverFormat
-    return await createReleaseByLevel(level, {messages, forceCalverFormat})
+    const inputCurrentTag = argv.currentTag
+    return await createReleaseByLevel(level, {messages, forceCalverFormat, inputCurrentTag})
   }
 
   async function createReleaseByLevel(level, params) {