Embed sha in assembly?

[sgrassie]

Hi, firstly can I say that coming from GitVersion, that this lib is much simpler and is removing some complications for me as part of the build pipeline.

Second, I might be missing something so I wanted to ask this in a discussion before I started an issue, but I can't see a way of getting the sha into the <InformationalVersion>. Looking at the code, the sha is clearly used as part of the Versioner.cs#L120, so it's available. Am I missing someway of getting it into the buildMetaData?

Some people just want to see the sha as part of the extended version information 😄

[sgrassie]

Ok, I can see how I could do this in an AfterTargets="MinVer" by pulling the required data out of the CI environment. It would still be nice to be able to do this locally though.

[bording]

@sgrassie You should consider adding a package reference to Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub to your project. Part of what it does is add the commit hash to the informational version.

I believe this is one of the reasons that MinVer doesn't do this. If it did, then you'd end up with the hash in the version twice.

[sgrassie]

Well of course that makes perfect sense. Thanks.

Except if the client you are working with uses a non-standard VCS that you've adapted MinVer to work against... Not sure the effort of SourceLink integration as well is going to be worth it.

Thanks again.

[bording]

There are Source Link packages available for many different source control providers. Take a look at https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink to see a list. Maybe there is one that works for you already.

[adamralph]

@bording would you consider re-posting your suggestion to use Source Link as a top level answer? Then we can mark it as the answer.

[bording]

It seems very odd that a reply can't be marked as an answer!

[bording]

You should consider adding a package reference to Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub to your project. Part of what it does is add the commit hash to the informational version.

I believe this is one of the reasons that MinVer doesn't do this. If it did, then you'd end up with the hash in the version twice.

If your code isn't on GitHub, there are Source Link packages available for many different source control providers. Take a look at https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink to see a list. Maybe there is one that works for you already.

[adamralph]

Update—the .NET 8 SDK provides this as SourceRevisionId.