AutoVer

Notice: This project is currently in development and is not ready for use beyond experimentation.

AutoVer is a .NET CLI tool that is used for automating versioning of .NET projects.

The tool is meant to support the following capabilities:

• Auto version multiple project with different version numbers in a single git repository
• Specify Patch, Minor or Major version types
• Create git tags and GitHub releases
• Generate changelogs based on git commit messages as well as hand-written ones.

CI/CD

AutoVer could be used as part of your CI/CD workflow. The following is a sample GitHub Workflow to version a .NET project as well as create the CHANGELOG.md file.

name: Prepare Release

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  version-and-changelog:
    name: Version and Changelog
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Setup .NET 8.0
        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v4
        with:
          dotnet-version: 8.0.x
      - name: Install AutoVer
        run: dotnet tool install -g AutoVer
      - name: Setup Git User
        run: |
          git config --global user.email "github-user@email.com"
          git config --global user.name "GitHub User"
      - name: Increment Version
        run: autover version
      - name: Update Chagelog
        run: autover changelog
      - name: Push Changes
        run: git push && git push origin --tags

Note: Make sure to replace github-user@email.com and GitHub User.

Getting Help

If you have any feature requests, feel free to submit then to this repo for me to take into consideration as I build this tool out.

This project takes inspiration from the following projects:

• Versionize
• AWS .NET deployment tool