From 7e1daaf7d5d0cc7af92f0d52051f62e61efd0841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Henry <jchenry@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:04:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added makefile to do releases

---
 Makefile | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e69de29..f5bc966 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Variables
+REPO_REMOTE := origin
+VERSION_TAG_PREFIX := "v"  # Prefix for version tags, if any
+
+# Helper function to get the latest tag and increment the version
+define next_version
+    latest_tag=$$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "$(VERSION_TAG_PREFIX)0.0.0"); \
+    major=$$(echo $$latest_tag | sed -E 's/$(VERSION_TAG_PREFIX)([0-9]+)\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/\1/'); \
+    minor=$$(echo $$latest_tag | sed -E 's/$(VERSION_TAG_PREFIX)[0-9]+\.([0-9]+)\.[0-9]+/\1/'); \
+    patch=$$(echo $$latest_tag | sed -E 's/$(VERSION_TAG_PREFIX)[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.([0-9]+)/\1/'); \
+    next_patch=$$(($$patch + 1)); \
+    echo "$(VERSION_TAG_PREFIX)$$major.$$minor.$$next_patch"
+endef
+
+# Target to tag and push the next version
+release:
+	@next_version=$$($(next_version)); \
+	echo "Tagging with version $$next_version"; \
+	git tag $$next_version; \
+	git push $(REPO_REMOTE) $$next_version