Show HN: Doxxer – CLI tool for dynamic SemVer versioning using tags

[nautical_dog]

https://github.com/karlis-vagalis/doxxer

Hi, first time poster here!

Wanted to share a small CLI utility in Rust: doxxer!

It is a tool for working with Git repositories, more specifically, extracting and calculating current/upcoming semantic versions for your repo's tags.

It is heavily inspired by the output from "git describe --tags".

Why use anything else then? The output is not fully SemVer compliant and therefore I was modifying it in all my projects separately, which I wanted to avoid. Single binary, single predictable output.

It does not currently have pre-built binaries, so you have to install it via cargo, but it's in the roadmap!

[junto]

Am I missing a joke here with the name choice?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/07/world/what-is-doxxing-exp...

[kbouck → junto]

From the FAQ:

> Why is the project called doxxer? Because it's like somebody who doxes, by exposing the version information about Git repo to you!

[netsharc → kbouck]

What a moronically fucking stupid name, and reasoning. Should I rename "ls" to "doxdir", it exposes the contents of a directory after all!

[aranelsurion]

there's also this one: https://github.com/caarlos0/svu