I kept forgetting to bump my VERSION file – so I built a tool to fix that

Every few weeks it happened: I'd push code, lean back — and then realize I forgot to update the VERSION file. Again. Not a disaster. But annoying enough that I started thinking about fixing it. The problem I work on many projects in parallel. Each has a VERSION file that I maintain manually. The problem is: there's no built-in reminder. Nothing tells you "hey, you changed files since the last version bump." You just have to remember. And I kept not remembering. The solution I built I built VerBump — a small Windows tool that shows all my projects in one window and highlights in orange which ones have source files newer than the current VERSION file. One glance, and I know exactly what needs bumping before I push. Bumping itself is keyboard-driven: Ctrl+1 for Patch, Ctrl+2 for Minor, Ctrl+3 for Major. No mouse, no dialogs, done in two seconds. The "set it and forget it" mode For projects where I really don't want to think about it at all, VerBump can install a Git pre-commit hook. It bl