GitHub Actions versioning with tag

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This guide uses GitHub Actions and commitizen to manage version progress and update the CHANGELOG.md file.

The idea is that when we do a commit on the main, or do a merge on the main, the pipeline will do the version advance and commit the tag, CHANGELOG.md and version files

First, You have to configure your repository Settings -> Action -> General -> Workflow permissions and choose read and write permissions

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This is the file configuration for the pipleline .github/workflows/bumpversion.yaml

name: Bump version

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  bump_version:
    if: "!startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bump:')"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: "Bump version and create changelog with commitizen"
    steps:
      - name: Check out
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
      - id: cz
        name: Create bump and changelog
        uses: commitizen-tools/commitizen-action@master
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - name: Print Version
        run: echo "Bumped to version ${{ steps.cz.outputs.version…