Find out how to use the gitversion/setup task using the examples below.
The examples use the latest 0.x version of the GitVersion Setup task. It is recommended to use the latest released version in your own pipelines.
The Setup GitVersion task accepts the following inputs:
versionSpec:
description: Required version in the form of 5.x or exact version like 5.0.0.
required: true
default: ''
includePrerelease:
description: Include pre-release versions when matching a version.
required: false
default: false
ignoreFailedSources:
description: Treat package source failures as warnings.
required: false
default: false
preferLatestVersion:
description: Prefer to download the latest version matching the versionSpec, even if there is a local cached version.
required: false
default: 'false'
In order for the gitversion to properly work you need to clone the repository with the entire history:
steps:
- checkout: self
fetchDepth: 0
Install the latest GitVersion 5 version.
steps:
- task: gitversion/setup@0
displayName: Install GitVersion
inputs:
versionSpec: '5.x'
Install GitVersion 5.5.0.
steps:
- task: gitversion/setup@0
displayName: Install GitVersion
inputs:
versionSpec: '5.5.0'
Install the latest GitVersion 6 pre-release version. For example 6.0.0-beta1.1.
steps:
- task: gitversion/setup@0
displayName: Install GitVersion
inputs:
versionSpec: '6.x'
includePrerelease: true
Install the latest GitVersion 5 version even it there is a cached version matching the versionSpec.
steps:
- task: gitversion/setup@0
displayName: Install GitVersion
inputs:
versionSpec: '5.x'
preferLatestVersion: true