Show HN: Doxxer – CLI tool for dynamic SemVer versioning using tags

11 nautical_dog 4 5/14/2025, 3:10:06 PM github.com ↗
Hi, first time poster here!

Wanted to share a small CLI utility in Rust: doxxer!

It is a tool for working with Git repositories, more specifically, extracting and calculating current/upcoming semantic versions for your repo's tags.

It is heavily inspired by the output from "git describe --tags".

Why use anything else then? The output is not fully SemVer compliant and therefore I was modifying it in all my projects separately, which I wanted to avoid. Single binary, single predictable output.

It does not currently have pre-built binaries, so you have to install it via cargo, but it's in the roadmap!

Comments (4)

junto · 29d ago
Am I missing a joke here with the name choice?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/07/world/what-is-doxxing-exp...

kbouck · 29d ago
From the FAQ:

> Why is the project called doxxer? Because it's like somebody who doxes, by exposing the version information about Git repo to you!

netsharc · 29d ago
What a moronically fucking stupid name, and reasoning. Should I rename "ls" to "doxdir", it exposes the contents of a directory after all!
aranelsurion · 29d ago
there's also this one: https://github.com/caarlos0/svu