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categories:
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- Software Engineering
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tags: []
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---
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# Semantic versioning
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3.4.1 === major.minor.patch
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```
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- Major
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- New feature which may potentially cause breaking changes to applications dependent on the previous major version.
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- Minor
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- New features that do not break the existing API
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- Patch
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- Bug fixes for the current minor version
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## Glob patterns for versioning
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### Caret
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Interested in any version so long as the major version remains at $n$. E.g if we are at `^4.2.1` and we upgrade, we are ok with `4.5.3` or `4.8.2`. We are not bothered about the minor or patch version.
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This is equivalent to `4.x`
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### Tilde
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Interested in any patch version within set major and minor parameters. For example `~1.8.3` means you don't mind any patch version so long as it is a patch for `1.8`. This is equivalent to `1.8.x`.
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### No tilde or caret
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Use the _exact_ version specified
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