s0ders/go-semver-release

Question: about alternatives you considered

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Question: about alternatives you considered

I found https://github.com/go-semantic-release/semantic-release

And this project seems pretty complete and advanced. Were you aware of it? Did it inspire you?

I was not aware of this project. It states that it's a Go version of the semantic-release project written in JS.
This project (go-semver-release) tries to focus on versionning only (no package publishing, change log generation etc.) with as little dependencies as possible for security and perf. reasons.

While these projects offer more features, I believe they also bring a small overhead when people sometimes simply want a semantic version number and a Git tag to start versionning their projects, which is why I started building this project.

I think you should copy paste this in your README

I often find interesting when I read such things in the readme.

It gives context and reply question such like mine: how is this project from the others I know

I agree, will do as soon as possible !

You could also explain how you project is not related to https://github.com/coreos/go-semver and how it differs

People might be confused with project name proximity.

Closing, added new section "How is this different from tool X ?" in README.md in PR #47.