feat(version_tag): add glob support

[Thelm76]

Adding glob(7) support for custom prefixes.

The git describe --match argument uses glob(7) pattern to match the tags.

Taking this into account, it could be useful for matching multiple tags using the same matcher :
e.g. using prefix foo?v, git can match foo_v foo-v foo!v...
Which is currently not supported by the extractVersionFromTag.

the chosen package for matching glob patterns is minimatch which is well-known and has been actively developed for more than 10 years

[Thelm76]

Hi @damienaicheh do you think it would be possible to include such modification to the plugin?

[damienaicheh]

Hi, I dont understand your usecase, why matching multiples tags? This plugin was made to generate a package based on a specific version of your git repository

[Thelm76]

When we use the command describe, we can use globs to match a pattern.
In our project, I tried to use the plugin to prefix a version with prefix_v1.2.3 and [email protected],
The idea was to create two tags : the two should set the version correctly, but only [email protected] would trigger the pipeline automatically.
I also tried by prefixing suffixing the tag with a dash (like prefix_v1.2.3-) but without success (it adds -0 on the version number)

The idea is to allow multiple different versions on the same commit, depending on the client we generate the app for

[Thelm76]

By using glob patterns in the version tag, the prefix matcher becomes compatible with the --match flag thus reducing the probability of mismatch, and allowing to have multiple "different" tags working on a single pipeline.
This can be useful in multiple different case, maybe like passing a parameter in the tag name. In our case, it provides a way to chose between auto-triggering multiple pipeline, or manually launching some of them.

[Thelm76]

This is a part I'm not sure about.
There should be a way of extracting the prefix part using the matcher, better than trying matching the prefix by gradually adding more letters and matching each candidates until it doesn't matches anymore...

[Thelm76]

Hi @damienaicheh ,
Have you got the time to check the work I've done?