node/deps/npm/doc/cli/version.md

npm-version(1) -- Bump a package version

SYNOPSIS

npm version <newversion> [--message commit-message]

DESCRIPTION

Run this in a package directory to bump the version and write the new data back to the package.json file.

The newversion argument should be a valid semver string, or a valid second argument to semver.inc (one of "patch", "minor", or "major"). In the second case, the existing version will be incremented by that amount.

If run in a git repo, it will also create a version commit and tag, and fail if the repo is not clean.

If supplied with --message (shorthand: -m) command line option, npm will use it as a commit message when creating a version commit.

SEE ALSO

• npm-init(1)
• npm-json(1)
• npm-semver(1)