Question about versioning in an nf-core pipeline dev branch: I have spent the past few months working on the dev branch and have made several PRs with major updates. I did not bump the version because I thought semantic versioning only applied to the release branch, such as

main

or

master

. My question is: should I update the dev version, for example from

<http://1.1.0.dev|1.1.0.dev>

to

<http://1.2.0.dev|1.2.0.dev>

, each time I make changes/upgrades to the dev branch? Or should I leave the version unchanged until the pipeline is ready for release? Thank you.

1.1.0dev

should mean that

master

is on

1.0.0

. You don’t bump the version on the dev branch until after the next release -

1.1.0

. It is simply indicating what the next release is, it is not it’s own separate versioning system.

I see. Thank you.