Bump an npm package version and auto-create a git tag with npm version
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Documented steps
From the package root, run `npm version patch|minor|major|prepatch|preminor|premajor|prerelease` to bump the version in package.json, package-lock.json (and npm-shrinkwrap.json if present).
For a prerelease, add the identifier: `npm version prerelease --preid=rc` yields e.g. 1.2.0-rc.0; repeat to increment the prerelease.
In a git repo, npm version auto-creates a version commit and an annotated git tag named after the new version, unless suppressed.
Use custom commit/tag message: `npm version minor -m "Upgrade to %s"` — %s is replaced with the new version.
If the working tree is dirty, npm version fails unless you pass `-f`/`--force`.
Skip git tagging/commit for non-git or manual flows with `npm --no-git-tag-version version patch`.
Optional lifecycle hooks: preversion (runs before bump, sees old version), version (after bump, sees new version), postversion (after commit/tag) — wire `preversion: npm test` to block bad releases.
Known gotchas
npm version refuses to run on a dirty working tree by default (ENOGIT / dirty error) — commit or stash first, or force.
Setting git-tag-version=false means NO commit is made at all, not just no tag.
The `version` script runs after the bump and can run builds, but you must git add generated files explicitly for them to land in the version commit.
sign-git-tag=true requires a configured GPG key or the tag step fails.
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