What is the difference between ~ and ^ in bower.json?

Question

I have this bower.json file.

{
  "name": "angular-seed",
  "description": "A starter project for AngularJS",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/angular/angular-seed",
  "license": "MIT",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "angular": "~1.4.0",
    "angular-route": "~1.4.0",
    "angular-loader": "~1.4.0",
    "angular-mocks": "~1.4.0",
    "html5-boilerplate": "~5.2.0",
    "angular-google-chart": "^0.1.0",
    "angular-material": "^1.0.6"
  }
}

For some dependencies, I see ^ as in "angular-material": "^1.0.6". For others, I see ~ as in "html5-boilerplate": "~5.2.0". What is the difference between ^ and ~?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19030170/what-is-the-bower-version-syntax — mlewandowski, Mar 04 '16 at 14:09
Your can found your answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/31845544/5368495 — Charles, Mar 04 '16 at 14:10
[Node-semver](https://github.com/npm/node-semver#tilde-ranges-123-12-1) — Tushar, Mar 04 '16 at 14:17

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '16 at 14:12

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It's all about semver and it actually comes from npm's package.json:

~version is "Approximately equivalent to version"
^version is "Compatible with version"

answered Mar 04 '16 at 14:12

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