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Standardization of runtime assembly attributes

See original GitHub issue

In runtime assemblies we have these:

[assembly: AssemblyMetadata("RepositoryUrl", "git://github.com/dotnet/runtime")]
[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("5.0.0-preview.8.20357.3+225405979bef9252208fcc71ea0552e1cb27a1e2")]

In ASP.NET ones:

[assembly: AssemblyMetadata("RepositoryUrl", "https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore")]
[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("5.0.0-preview.8.20357.7")]
[assembly: AssemblyMetadata("CommitHash", "380a5679bbc5cef03471ab68bd9b2d14085ead91")]

I’d love to see these version metadata standardized across repositories, and probably keep it stable as long as possible, such that application that need to introspect these are broken less often.

Suggestions:

Use different attributes for the version and the commit hash, like ASP.NET
Standardize the repository url, probably with the https scheme instead of git

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Created 3 years ago
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bricelamcommented, Sep 29, 2020

Personally? No. All the information is now available. Having a standard format is only valuable if it becomes ubiquitous across the entire .NET ecosystem.

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jkotascommented, Jul 31, 2020

dotnet/runtime is following standards established by .NET SDK, SourceLink and Arcade.

If you are going to do (inside git repository):

dotnet new console
dotnet add package Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub
dotnet build

The binary is going to have the same AssemblyInformationalVersion format as dotnet/runtime binaries.

The Arcade-specific details of the standard are documented here: https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/blob/master/Documentation/CorePackages/Versioning.md#assembly-informational-version-generation

Why is ASP.NET deviating from the .NET SDK and SourceLink defaults?

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