How To

[KZeronimo]

Apologize in advance for abusing the issue mechanism -

Can you point me to a fuller example of how to leverage this task - I'm unclear how this would fit in with other plugins such as GitVersion etc

Thanks in advance

[sandorfr]

That's ok :) we have blog post about this on the way. There are several cases where you might need a simple integer rather than a string version number.

One of them is Android VersionCode this is extremely sensitive when using tools such as HockeyApp. The basic idea is that you can take a semver string (produced by GitVersion) and encodes it as an integer which you can provide as the Android Version Code. This makes sure that build are correctly ordered in HockeyApp and Update Notifications correctly shown.

We make the bit usage configurable so you can tweak how they are generated depending on what environement you target. (Because if you publish to google play you don't want to burn version codes too quickly but you also probably won't publish unstable version, max versioncode is 2100000000 ).

(Another Scenario is Dacpac Application tier version number generation.)

Hope this helps

[KZeronimo]

Ah ok ... that helps a lot ... I'll keep an eye out for the blog post!

Feel free to close

[sandorfr]

This is a fair question, we will keep it opened until with have published more guidance.

[KZeronimo]

Great - thank you