Version Variables

Version variables are quite useful if you need different formats of the version number. Running the gitversion executable in your repository will show you what is available. For the release/3.0.0 branch of GitVersion it shows: 

{
    "Major": 3,
    "Minor": 22,
    "Patch": 11,
    "PreReleaseTag": "beta.99",
    "PreReleaseTagWithDash": "-beta.99",
    "PreReleaseLabel": "beta",
    "PreReleaseLabelWithDash": "-beta",
    "PreReleaseNumber": 99,
    "WeightedPreReleaseNumber": 1099,
    "BuildMetaData": 88,
    "FullBuildMetaData": "99.Branch.release/3.22.11.Sha.28c853159a46b5a87e6cc9c4f6e940c59d6bc68a",
    "MajorMinorPatch": "3.22.11",
    "SemVer": "3.22.11-beta.99",
    "AssemblySemVer": "3.22.11.0",
    "AssemblySemFileVer": "3.22.11.0",
    "InformationalVersion": "3.22.11-beta.99+88.Branch.release/3.022.011.Sha.28c853159a46b5a87e6cc9c4f6e940c59d6bc68a",
    "FullSemVer": "3.22.11-beta.99+88",
    "BranchName": "release/3.022.011",
    "EscapedBranchName": "release-3.022.011",
    "Sha": "28c853159a46b5a87e6cc9c4f6e940c59d6bc68a",
    "ShortSha": "28c8531",
    "VersionSourceSha": "28c853159a46b5a87e6cc9c4f6e940c59d6bc68a",
    "CommitsSinceVersionSource": 7,
    "CommitDate": "2021-12-31",
    "UncommittedChanges": 0
}

Each property of the above JSON document is described in the below table.

Property Description
Major The major version. Should be incremented on breaking changes.
Minor The minor version. Should be incremented on new features.
Patch The patch version. Should be incremented on bug fixes.
PreReleaseTag The pre-release tag is the pre-release label suffixed by the PreReleaseNumber.
PreReleaseTagWithDash The pre-release tag prefixed with a dash.
PreReleaseLabel The pre-release label.
PreReleaseLabelWithDash The pre-release label prefixed with a dash.
PreReleaseNumber The pre-release number.
WeightedPreReleaseNumber A summation of branch specific pre-release-weight and the PreReleaseNumber. Can be used to obtain a monotonically increasing version number across the branches.
BuildMetaData The build metadata, usually representing number of commits since the VersionSourceSha. Despite its name, will not increment for every build.
FullBuildMetaData The BuildMetaData suffixed with BranchName and Sha.
MajorMinorPatch Major, Minor and Patch joined together, separated by ..
SemVer The semantical version number, including PreReleaseTagWithDash for pre-release version numbers.
AssemblySemVer Suitable for .NET AssemblyVersion. Defaults to Major.Minor.0.0 to allow the assembly to be hotfixed without breaking existing applications that may be referencing it.
AssemblySemFileVer Suitable for .NET AssemblyFileVersion. Defaults to Major.Minor.Patch.0.
InformationalVersion Suitable for .NET AssemblyInformationalVersion. Defaults to FullSemVer suffixed by FullBuildMetaData.
FullSemVer The full, SemVer 2.0 compliant version number.
BranchName The name of the checked out Git branch.
EscapedBranchName Equal to BranchName, but with / replaced with -.
Sha The SHA of the Git commit.
ShortSha The Sha limited to 7 characters.
VersionSourceSha The SHA of the commit used as version source.
CommitsSinceVersionSource The number of commits since the version source.
CommitDate The ISO-8601 formatted date of the commit identified by Sha.
UncommittedChanges The number of uncommitted changes present in the repository.

Depending on how and in which context GitVersion is executed (for instance within a supported build server), the above version variables may be exposed automatically as environment variables in the format GitVersion_FullSemVer.

Formatting Variables

GitVersion variables can be formatted using C# format strings. See Format Strings for details.

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