Migrating from GitVersion

I’m migrating away from GitVersion which I couldn’t ever get quite stable, and trying to replicate something like a branching of dev -> main where dev is where all the work happens, and then main results in a build and a new version bump.

Occasionally I might need to get a build from dev that is something like a preview or beta build.

My issue mainly revolves are trying to integration the CLI into my build pipeline, given I’ve already got tags representing previous versions.

Is there any guidance on initial setup like this using Azure DevOps? I’m finding that I need to manually tag a build to get the right version at the moment.

Currently the build YAML looks like this:

variables:
  MinVer: ''
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- task: PowerShell@2
  displayName: 'Set MinVer Version'
  inputs:
    targetType: inline
    script: |
      $version = dotnet minver -v e
      echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=MinVer]$version"
      Write-Host "Setting MinVer to '$version'"

- task: PowerShell@2
  displayName: 'Updating AssemblyInfo'
  inputs:
    targetType: filePath
    filePath: "build/scripts/build/update-version-info.ps1"
    arguments: "-newVersion $(MinVer) -filePath build/msbuild/Properties/AssemblyInfo_Versioning.cs"
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- task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
  displayName: '.NET Core: Pack'
  condition: succeeded()
  inputs:
    command: custom
    custom: pack
    arguments: $(solutionFile) --nologo -c $(buildConfiguration) -v q -m --include-symbols --include-source --output $(build.artifactstagingdirectory)/dropartifacts/ /p:Version=$(MinVer) 

[adamralph]

@kieronlanning I’ll close this now.

If you have more questions, please feel free to start a discussion.

[kieronlanning]

@adamralph I guess I had it there because previously I’d used GitVersion to update that file prior to the build happening.

In my minds eye, I was trying to replicate that because it nicely separated the builds from versioning, plus there was zero dependencies within the solution/ projects as it was a Azure DevOps concern.

But I’ll pull all that out, and try it with the package instead.

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EDIT: @adamralph I’ve not forgotten, just swept up in something else. I’ll get back to this as soon as I can, thanks for your help so far!