YAVT - Yet another versioning tool

YAVT is just another tool to apply Git versioning to .NET projects from Azure Pipelines.

Overview

Unlike great alternatives like Nerdbank.GitVersioning and GitVersion, which were designed to be highly configurable, YAVT is as simple as possible. It will plainly read the specified version from the given version.json, and apply it to all .NET projects (and optionally to .nuspec files) in the repository during a build.

To determine the version schema to apply, regular expressions that can be configured in the version.json are used. If the built path matches on of those specified there, date and build id will be added to the version's postfix.

Samples

Given the version.json example below, assuming the Build.BuildId is 42, and it's January 1 2020, the following versions will be set:

Branch	Version	File Version
master	1.0.0	1.0.0.42
tags/v1.3.0	1.0.0	1.0.0.42
refs/pull/ 1/merge	1.0.0-ci.20001.42*	1.0.0.42
dev	1.0.0-20001.42	1.0.0.42

* If the addCiLabel parameter is set to true.

Installation

You can download the Azure DevOps task directly from the marketplace.

Usage

To get started, install the extension from the link above, and create a version.json according to the following schema:

{
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "releaseBranches": [
        "^refs/heads/master$", 
        "^refs\/tags\/v\\d+\\.\\d.\\d+$" 
    ]
}

If you set the parameter mode to Multi, you can also specify multiple version.json's that will be used for their respective folders and subfolders.

Semantic versioning, including postfixes (like -rc1, etc.) are supported in the version property.

Then, pull the build step into your pipeline - either via the UI editor, or with the following YAML step:

steps:
- task: yavt@1
  inputs:
    mode: 'Single'                      // Or 'Multi'
    pathToVersionJson: 'version.json'   // Ignored when set to mode 'Multi'
    updateNuspecFiles: true
    updateBuildNumber: true
    addCiLabel: true
    failOnTagVersionMismatch: true
    splitFileVersion: true
    semverVersion: 'v2'

Parameters

• mode: Single will use one version.json file for all found projects. When set to Multi, a Directory.build.props file is created on the same level as each detected version.json.
• pathToVersionJson: The path to the version.json. Ignored when set to mode 'Multi'.
• updateNuspecFiles: If set to true, the version will also be inserted/updated in .nuspec files.
• updateBuildNumber: If set to true, the build number in Azure DevOps is set to the computed version.
• addCiLabel: If set to true, the postfix label ci will be set for PR builds if no other label is specified. For example, creating a PR build with the specified version 1.0.0 will result in 1.0.0-ci.20045.123. When the label is already set in version.json, e.g. to 1.0.0-rc1, it will be respected and the resulting version will be 1.0.0-rc1.20045.123.
• failOnTagVersionMismatch: If set to true, fail when a release version is created, but the tag and the version don't match.
• splitFileVersion: If set to true the build number will be split up into two parts and used for the minor and patch parts of the file version. This mitigates error CS7035 on build numbers higher than 65534.
• semverVersion: If v1 is selected, labels are separated by a - instead of a . - e.g. 1.0.0-rc1-20123-42 instead of 1.0.0-rc1.20123.42.