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Contributing to GitVersion

We love contributions to get started contributing you might need:

Once you know how to create a pull request and have an issue to work on, just post a comment saying you will work on it. If you end up not being able to complete the task, please post another comment so others can pick it up.

Issues are also welcome, failing tests are even more welcome.

Contribution Guidelines

  • Try to use feature branches rather than developing on main.
  • Please include tests covering the change.
  • The documentation is stored in the repository under the docs folder. Have a look at the documentation readme file for guidance on how to improve the documentation and please include documentation updates with your PR.

How it works

See how it works in GitVersion's documentation

Writing Tests

We have made it super easy to write tests in GitVersion. Most tests you are interested in are in GitVersion.Core.Tests\IntegrationTests.

There is a scenario class for each type of branch. For example MainScenarios, FeatureBranchScenarios etc.

1. Find Appropriate Scenario class

Find where your issue would logically sit. Or create a new scenario class if it doesn't fit anywhere in particular.

2. Create a test method

We are currently using NUnit, so just create a descriptive test method and attribute it with [Test]

3. Create a configuration

We use a builder pattern to create a configuration. You can use the GitFlowConfigurationBuilder or GitHubConfigurationBuilder or EmptyConfigurationBuilder to create a configuration builder.

var configurationBuilder = GitFlowConfigurationBuilder.New;

We can then customize the configuration by chaining methods of the builder. At the end we build the configuration.

For example:

var configuration = configurationBuilder
    .WithDeploymentMode(DeploymentMode.ContinuousDeployment)
    .WithNextVersion("1.0.0")
    .Build();

4. Use a fixture

We have a few fixtures for different scenarios.

  • EmptyRepositoryFixture - Gives you an empty git repo to start with
  • RemoteRepositoryFixture - A local repo tracking a test remote repository. The remote repo is available through the Repository property, the local is accessible via LocalRepository
  • BaseGitFlowRepositoryFixture - A repo setup for GitFlow (has a develop branch checked out ready to go)

You can use a fixture by just using it. Like this

using var repo = new EmptyRepositoryFixture();

5. Writing the scenario

We have a number of extension method off IRepository to make it easy to write tests at the flow level and not worry about creating/commiting files.

An example test looks like this:

fixture.Repository.MakeATaggedCommit("1.0.0");
fixture.Repository.CreateBranch("feature-test");
fixture.Repository.Checkout("feature-test");
fixture.Repository.MakeACommit();
fixture.Repository.MakeCommits(4);

fixture.AssertFullSemver("1.0.1-test.1-5", configuration);

The last line is the most important. AssertFullSemver will run GitVersion and assert that the full SemVer it calculates is what you expect.

6. Submit a pull request with the failing test

Even better include the fix, but a failing test is a great start

Release Process

We use Cake for our build and deployment process. The way the release process is setup is:

  1. We build releasable artifacts with GitHub Actions
  2. We create a milestone for the release if it's not already created. Our milestones are named using the semver. For example 5.12.0 or 6.0.0-beta.2
  3. We move all the closed issues and closed pull requests that are going to be included in the release to the milestone.
  4. We check that all the issues and pull requests that are going to be included in the release have a label assigned, otherwise it will fail the release.
  5. We create a release in the GitHub UI, and create a tag and name it using the milestone name. For example 5.12.0 or 6.0.0-beta.2
  6. We specify if the release is a pre-release or latest release in the GitHub UI.
  7. We publish the release.
  8. The GitHub Actions will create a GitHub release and publish the artifacts to NuGet, Chocolatey, Docker, Homebrew and other distribution channels.
  9. The issues and pull requests will get updated with message specifying in which release it was included.

Code Style

In order to apply the code style defined by by the .editorconfig file you can use dotnet-format.

Change to the root folder of the GitVersion repository and use the following command to apply the code style:

dotnet format ./src/ --exclude **/AddFormats/

Documentation

The documentation is stored in the repository under the docs folder. Have a look at the documentation readme file for guidance.

In order to check locally how the documentation looks like you can use the following command:

./build.ps1 -Stage docs -Target PreviewDocs

Schemas generation

If there are changes to the GitVersionVariables or to the GitVersionConfiguration, the following command should be executed to update the schema files:

./build.ps1 -Stage build -Target BuildPrepare
./build.ps1 -Stage docs -Target GenerateSchemas