now this can be a docker container and version a different repository that is on same file system

.bumpversion.cfg

@@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ message = Bump version: {current_version} -> {new_version}
 [bumpversion:file:VERSION]
 search = version={current_version}
 replace = version={new_version}
-

Dockerfile

@@ -17,5 +17,4 @@ RUN chown -R semver:semver /semver && chmod -R ug+x /semver/*
 
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
 
-#CMD python get_version.py
-CMD tail -f get_version.py
+CMD python semver.py && python get_version.py

README.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
 Semantic Versioning
+----------
 
-2
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+docker build -t semver .
+docker run -v FULL_PATH_TO_LOCAL_REPO:/application_repo semver
+
+# after this finishes must go to FULL_PATH_TO_LOCAL_REPO and push yourself
+git push origin develop
+git push origin --tags

get_version.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
 
 def get_version():
     config = ConfigParser()
-    config.read('.bumpversion.cfg')
+    config.read('/application_repo/.bumpversion.cfg')
     version = config.get('bumpversion', 'current_version')
     return version
 

semver.py

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import subprocess
+
+
+def semver():
+    # setup git user
+    p = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'config', 'user.email',
+                          '"versioner@semver.com"'], cwd='/application_repo')
+    p = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'config', 'user.name', '"Semantic Versioner"'],
+                          cwd='/application_repo')
+    p.wait()
+
+    # version repo
+    p = subprocess.Popen(['bumpversion', 'patch'], cwd='/application_repo')
+    p.wait()
+
+    '''
+    ' this will be difficult to do because we'd need to setup credentials in
+    '  docker container for git remote repo access
+    '
+    # push versioning commit
+    p = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'push', 'origin', 'develop'],
+                         cwd='/application_repo')
+    p.wait()
+
+    # push versioning tag
+    p = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'push', 'origin', '--tags'],
+                         cwd='/application_repo')
+    p.wait()
+    '''
+    return None
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    semver()