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Hi @Apeksha9389, 👋
thank you very much for submitting this pull request and tackling issue #497! Much appreciated. 😍
Ensuring that Version.next_version("prerelease", prerelease_token=...) preserves monotonic ordering when switching between prerelease tokens is a great improvement and prevents subtle version downgrade bugs.
To help users understand how token transitions work, could you please include a short section and example in docs/usage/increase-parts-of-a-version_prereleases.rst?
Here is the suggested addition:
Documentation change
When switching between prerelease tokens, :meth:`~semver.version.Version.next_version`
preserves natural ordering. Advancing to a higher token retains the patch version,
while switching to an earlier token increments the patch version to prevent a downgrade:
.. code-block:: python
>>> v = Version.parse("1.2.3-alpha.1")
>>> str(v.next_version("prerelease", prerelease_token="beta"))
'1.2.3-beta.1'
>>> str(Version.parse("1.2.3-rc.1").next_version("prerelease", prerelease_token="alpha"))
'1.2.4-alpha.1'Once this is added and the tests pass, this PR should be ready to merge. Thanks again for your contribution! ❤️
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Added the token-switching section and both examples in 4c4b9b5. All eight documentation examples and 473 tests pass, with one skipped. Thanks for the guidance. |
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Thanks @Apeksha9389 for your contribution. After a minor fix in the header, I've merged it. |
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Version.parse("1.2.3-rc.1").next_version("prerelease", "alpha")currently returns1.2.3-alpha.1, which is older than the original version despite the method's ordering guarantee.When resetting the token would move backward, advance the patch version and start the requested prerelease there. This example becomes
1.2.4-alpha.1. Forward changes such asalphatorcretain the patch version, and same-token increments keep their existing behavior. Build metadata is cleared and the original object is unchanged.Fixes #497. This implements the patch-advance option from that issue so valid token changes continue returning a newer version instead of introducing a new exception.
Validation: five regression cases failed before the fix. The full suite now passes 494 tests with one skip and reports 100% coverage. Cases cover legacy counters, numeric tokens, dotted tokens, forward changes and build metadata. One older expectation was updated because it also allowed a backward token change. Documentation and a changelog fragment describe the behavior.
Full Ruff reports 159 existing findings versus 160 on unchanged upstream, with no new findings by file, rule and message. Mypy reports the same missing optional
fast_semver_rs_backendmodule on both trees.git diff --checkpasses. Tested on Python 3.12.AI-assisted implementation and tests.