Allow skipping tags when calculating the next version

[markbrockhoff]

Hi, first of all thanks for this cool project.

I have a somewhat specific usecase where I would need to ignore some tags following a pattern when calculating the next version.
My approach would be to add build metadata to those commits so that they can be ignored later.

Example:

With this git log I would like to be able to run autotag and ignore the commits with meta so the next version in this example would be "v0.1.0".

My idea would be to add a "--ignore" option ("-i" for short) which allows specifying a pattern like "*meta*" to match the tag name against.

What do you think of it, would this be possible?
Thanks in advance :)

[spheromak]

Hrm would having the option to ignore any segment ? I.e. --ignore metadata --ignore prerelease --ignore patch I get that having a regex is more flexible, but this may be easier to use out of the gate. @joemiller do you have any thoughts on this one ?

[markbrockhoff]

Just to confirm I understood you right, your suggestion would be to add an option like --ignore-metadata meta to ignore tags that have "meta" as metadata on them when calculating the next version right?

Generally speaking this would be fine with me. I just thaught that a regex might be easier from an implementation point of view and like you said more flexible.

[xdubx]

@spheromak iam interessted at this feature too.