dotnet-bump

CLI to increment and git-tag the version of .NET, C(++) and npm projects. Geared towards Visual Studio projects.

Example

> dotnet-bump minor --dry-run
- Would stage Foo\Foo.csproj
- Would stage Bar\version.h
- Would commit and tag v1.1.0

> dotnet-bump minor
- Stage Foo\Foo.csproj
- Stage Bar\version.h
- Commit and tag v1.1.0

Usage

dotnet-bump <target> [options] [file..]

Bump to target version, one of:

• A release type: major, minor, patch, premajor, preminor, prepatch, prerelease
  • The major type bumps the major version (for example 2.4.1 => 3.0.0); minor and patch work the same way.
  • The premajor type bumps the version up to the next major version and down to a prerelease of that major version; preminor and prepatch work the same way.
  • The prerelease type works the same as prepatch if the input version is a non-prerelease. If the input is already a prerelease then it's simply incremented (for example 4.0.0-rc.2 => 4.0.0-rc.3).
• A specific version like 2.4.0 (must be semver).

Files can be glob patterns or paths to a:

• *.sln Visual Studio solution (parsed to find projects)
• *.csproj or *.fsproj project (parsed to find a Version element or AssemblyInfo file)
• *.cs or *.fs file (containing assembly attributes, see below)
• *.nuspec file (containing a version element)
• *.vcxproj project (used to discover version.h files in the same directory)
• version.h file (see below)
• *.json or *.json5 file (containing a version);
• Directory containing any of the above.

Default is the current working directory. Files must reside in a git working tree (or multiple working trees).

Glob patterns must use forward slashes (/) even on Windows, because the backward slash (\) is an escape character. This means dotnet-bump patch example\*.h should be dotnet-bump patch example/*.h. Backward slashes do work if the given argument is not a glob pattern, because dotnet-bump will interpret it as a file path: dotnet-bump patch example\version.h.

Options

--dry-run  -d  Print changes but don't make them
--force    -f  Continue if git working tree(s) are dirty
--no-commit    Don't commit and tag
--no-glob      Disable globbing
--verbose      Verbose output
--version  -v  Print version and exit
--help     -h  Print usage and exit

Supported patterns

.NET projects

Both legacy-style projects (that use assembly attributes) and SDK-style projects (that commonly use a Version element) are supported. For example, dotnet-bump would replace the 1.2.3 string here:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Version>1.2.3</Version>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

If the project is published as a NuGet package, the project version can usually serve as the source of truth. Other times a custom *.nuspec file may be necessary. For example:

<package xmlns="..">
  <metadata>
    <id>Example</id>
    <version>1.2.3</version>
  </metadata>
  <files>
    <file src="Example.dll" target="build\native\x64\bin" />
    <file src="Example.targets" target="build\Example.targets" />
  </files>
</package>

Assembly attributes (C# / F#)

If an AssemblyInfo.cs file is found then dotnet-bump will replace the following attribute and leave other attributes as-is. If a version has four numeric components (1.2.3.0) then the last component (.0) will be stripped.

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.2.3")]

If AssemblyFileVersion and / or AssemblyInformationalVersion attributes are present they will be updated as well, but only if AssemblyVersion is present because it is used to determine the current version.

[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.2.3")]
[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("1.2.3")]

version.h (C / C++)

One of the following combination of constants can be used, and must be written exactly as below with optional added whitespace (though dotnet-bump will strip such whitespace). Other lines in the version.h file will be left alone.

#define VERSION_MAJOR 1
#define VERSION_MINOR 2
#define VERSION_PATCH 3

#define VERSION_MAJOR 1
#define VERSION_MINOR 2
#define VERSION_PATCH 3
#define VERSION_BUILD 0

#define VERSION_MAJOR 1
#define VERSION_MINOR 2
#define VERSION_BUILD 3
#define VERSION_REVISION 0

If the combination has four constants, the last constant will be ignored (on read) and set to 0 (on write).

Install

Download a portable binary or install with npm:

npm install dotnet-bump --save-dev

License

MIT © Vincent Weevers