From a94cefdbad5c9a07ac04f77b7174cc643ce80028 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Cazzulino <daniel@cazzulino.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 23:21:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Properly detect branch changes for incremental builds

When the current HEAD (branch/tag/commit) is changed within VS, we currently don't surface any changes and the IDE thinks there's nothing to update. But obviously GitInfo would need to calculate again all the info.

This commit takes the ideas from #186 by @brunom, integrates into GitInfo and surfaces it to VS seamlessly so users don't have to customize anything and it Just Works.

Closes #186
---
 readme.md                         |  7 +++++++
 src/GitInfo/build/GitInfo.targets | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 022fbf9..ceb8c28 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -235,6 +235,13 @@ Available [MSBuild properties](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ms
            performance reasons.
            Defaults to empty value (no ignoring).
 
+  $(GitCachePath): where to cache the determined Git information
+				   gives the chance to use a shared location
+				   for different projects. this can improve
+				   the overall build time.
+				   has to end with a path seperator
+				   Defaults to empty value ('$(IntermediateOutputPath)').
+
   $(GitNameRevOptions): Options passed to git name-rev when finding
               a branch name for the current commit (Detached head). The default is
               '--refs=refs/heads/* --no-undefined --alwas'
diff --git a/src/GitInfo/build/GitInfo.targets b/src/GitInfo/build/GitInfo.targets
index 0093075..6281822 100644
--- a/src/GitInfo/build/GitInfo.targets
+++ b/src/GitInfo/build/GitInfo.targets
@@ -969,6 +969,27 @@
 
   </Target>
 
+  <!-- This combination of prop/item/target fix incremental builds after HEAD changes. -->
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <_GitCacheFullPath>$([System.IO.Path]::Combine($(MSBuildProjectDirectory), $(GitCachePath)))</_GitCacheFullPath>
+    <!-- We read the path to the HEAD file, written in a previously run _GitWriteHeadPath target -->
+    <_GitHeadPath Condition="Exists('$(_GitCacheFullPath)GitHead.cache')">$([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText('$(_GitCacheFullPath)GitHead.cache').Trim())</_GitHeadPath>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <!-- And if the HEAD path exists, we add it as an input for the fast up-to-date check VS performs -->
+    <UpToDateCheckInput Condition="'$(_GitHeadPath)' != '' and Exists('$(_GitHeadPath)')" Include="$(_GitHeadPath)" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+  <!-- NOTE: we write the path to HEAD after first calculating a version, since we can be anywhere in 
+       the solution structure. This file will only be written if there's a change in the git root, 
+       which should never happen. -->
+  <Target Name="_GitWriteHeadPath" AfterTargets="GitVersion">
+    <WriteLinesToFile Lines="$(GitRoot).git\HEAD"
+						  File="$(GitCachePath)GitHead.cache"
+						  Overwrite="true" WriteOnlyWhenDifferent="true" />
+  </Target>
+
   <!--
     ============================================================
               GitExe Property