From c10f14f763069dc9069438501c2d3db0c4845b2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manuel Barkhau <mbarkhau@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:26:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update readme

---
 README.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 499b950..d58568b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -377,6 +377,31 @@ New Version: v2020.1052
 PEP440     : 2020.1052
 ```
 
+### Explicit `--set-version`
+
+If the various automatic version incrementing methods don't work for you, you can explicitly do `--set-version=<version>`. 
+
+```diff
+$ bumpver update --dry --set-version="v2020.1060"
+INFO    - Old Version: v2020.1051-beta
+INFO    - New Version: v2020.1060
+--- setup.py
++++ setup.py
+@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
+     name="mymodule",
+-    version="2020.1051b0",
++    version="2020.1060",
+     description=description,
+
+--- src/mymodule/__init__.py
++++ src/mymodule/__init__.py
+@@ -3,3 +3,3 @@
+
+-__version__ = "v2020.1051-beta"
++__version__ = "v2020.1060"
+```
+
+
 
 ### Searching for Patterns with `grep`
 
@@ -916,6 +941,7 @@ INFO    - New Version: 2019.1002-beta
 ```
 
 
+
 ### VCS Parameters (git/mercurial)
 
 The individual steps performed by `bumpver update`: