feat(ng-dev): expose convertVersionBranchToSemVer function

The Material infrastructure leveraged this function but we
accidentally made it internal as part of the exceptional minor
cleanup.

.github/local-actions/branch-manager/main.js

@@ -63712,14 +63712,14 @@ async function getBranchesForMajorVersions(repo2, majorVersions) {
     if (!isVersionBranch(name)) {
       continue;
     }
-    const parsed = getVersionForVersionBranch(name);
+    const parsed = convertVersionBranchToSemVer(name);
     if (parsed !== null && majorVersions.includes(parsed.major)) {
       branches.push({ name, parsed });
     }
   }
   return branches.sort((a, b) => import_semver.default.rcompare(a.parsed, b.parsed));
 }
-function getVersionForVersionBranch(branchName) {
+function convertVersionBranchToSemVer(branchName) {
   return import_semver.default.parse(branchName.replace(versionBranchNameRegex, "$1.$2.0"));
 }
 

ng-dev/release/versioning/version-branches.ts

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ export async function getBranchesForMajorVersions(
     }
     // Convert the version-branch into a SemVer version that can be used with the
     // SemVer utilities. e.g. to determine semantic order, compare versions.
-    const parsed = getVersionForVersionBranch(name);
+    const parsed = convertVersionBranchToSemVer(name);
     // Collect all version-branches that match the specified major versions.
     if (parsed !== null && majorVersions.includes(parsed.major)) {
       branches.push({name, parsed});
@@ -131,6 +131,6 @@ export async function getBranchesForMajorVersions(
  * For example `10.0.x` will become `10.0.0` in SemVer. The patch digit is not
  * relevant but needed for parsing. SemVer does not allow `x` as patch digit.
  */
-function getVersionForVersionBranch(branchName: string): semver.SemVer | null {
+export function convertVersionBranchToSemVer(branchName: string): semver.SemVer | null {
   return semver.parse(branchName.replace(versionBranchNameRegex, '$1.$2.0'));
 }