HOWTO dotnet core nuget versioning

[Boggin]

GitInfo is correctly versioning our assemblies but I would like to extend this to versioning our nuget packages. The following is a snippet from our .csproj :

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp1.1</TargetFramework>
    <GenerateAssemblyInfo>false</GenerateAssemblyInfo>
    <GeneratePackageOnBuild>True</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
    <PackageVersion>$(GitSemVerMajor).$(GitSemVerMinor).$(GitSemVerPatch)$(GitSemVerDashLabel)</PackageVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="..\..\GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs" Link="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="gitinfo" Version="1.1.66" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

Note the GeneratePackageOnBuild.

What do I have to do to generate those environment variables, $(GitSemVerMajor), etc. when I call dotnet build?

[kzu]

Those are not environment variables, they are MSBuild variables determined during the build. Here's one way to do it.

The PackageVersion property has to be set from within a target that depends on GitVersion, which is when everything has been populated. You can achieve that by adding it as an InitialTargets:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk" InitialTargets="SetVersion">
...

[feliwir]

The link is dead. Can you please provide a fresh minimal example?

[Boggin]

The link refers to the Version.targets in the moq project build: https://github.com/moq/moq/blob/master/src/build/Version.targets

[kzu]

@feliwir the key is that you cannot assign those properties statically in a PropertyGroup, but must do so inside a Target that runs after GitInfo target runs