GVersion is a simplified/faster version of GitVersion to help you achieve Semantic Versioning on your project.
It's designed for those who want a simple tool based on tags to generate a GitVersion-like version number without the full functionality of GitVersion.
By saying simplified, GVersion only checks the following version sources:
- Version numbers in current being built branch name (e.g. release/2.0.0)
- the
next-versioninGitVersionConfig.yamlfile (e.g next-version: 2.0.0) - the nearest tag (e.g. if the nearest tag is v2.0.0, then the version will 2.0.1)
By saying faster, GVersion usually takes 1 second to work out the version number while GitVersion may take a few minutes (even more than 1 hour in some edge case)
GVersion outputs the same variables as GitVersion does. Such as (not a full list of the variables):
- GitVersion.AssemblySemVer : 2.1.1.0
- GitVersion.BranchName : pull/105/merge
- GitVersion.MajorMinorPatch : 2.1.1
- GitVersion.BuildMetaData : 85
- GitVersion.FullSemVer : 2.1.1-PullRequest.105+85
One difference is that GVersion will always output the BuildMetaData even if it's zero.
no configuration required, the only thing you need is to add GVersion as a build step to your project.
You can change the GitVersion prefix of GitVersion.FullSemVer to something else by defining an env parameter "teamcity.GVersion.ParamPrefix"