Error stating alias already specified as version, but it is not

[robzor92]

Hello! First of all, thanks a bunch for this tool. It really helped out with versioning documentation for us.

Recently we've run into an issue with this command failing.

mike deploy 3.0.1 3.0 -u --push

with the output:

error: alias '3.0' already specified as a version

We have a setup with an alias named 3.0 that points to the latest release version, in this case 3.0.1. There is no version named 3.0 as the error states. All our versions are specified as *.*.*.

Also, in addition to the 3.0 alias, we have another alias named latest which just points to the overall latest version.

Our versions.json looks like this:

[
   {
      "version":"3.1.0-SNAPSHOT",
      "title":"3.1.0-SNAPSHOT",
      "aliases":[
         "dev"
      ]
   },
   {
      "version":"3.0.0",
      "title":"3.0.0",
      "aliases":[
         "3.0",
         "latest"
      ]
   },
   {
      "version":"2.5.2",
      "title":"2.5.2",
      "aliases":[

      ]
   },
   {
      "version":"2.5.1",
      "title":"2.5.1",
      "aliases":[

      ]
   },
   {
      "version":"2.5.0",
      "title":"2.5.0",
      "aliases":[

      ]
   }
]

Here is our gh-pages branch.

Are we doing something wrong on our end?

Grateful for any help on this!

[jimporter]

The issue here was that 3.0 and 3.0.0 were getting compared to each other as versions, not as strings. As versions, those two are equivalent, which resulted in this false positive.

[robzor92]

@jimporter Thanks a lot! Happy to try it out when 2.0.0 is released. :)

[moritzmeister]

@jimporter thanks for the quick response! Do you have plans for a minor bug fix release in the near future?

[jimporter]

No, this will be released with 2.0, which will be tagged when I close out everything left in the milestone. That probably won't be particularly soon though, since this project is a low priority for me, and I don't have a lot of free time lately.

If you need this sooner, I'd recommend using the development builds. They should be pretty stable, and more testing is always appreciated.