Need help achieving proper version control with GitInfo.

[kikaragyozov]

Greetings all.

I've no clue how MSBuild targets work, but I somehow managed to get some code that ended up doing part of what I wanted, but when I introduced GitInfo.txt, problems started occuring.

My .csproj file contains the following 2 targets:

<Target Name="PopulateNETSDKAssemblyVersion" AfterTargets="_GitPopulateVersionInfo">
		<PropertyGroup>
			<Version>$(GitBaseVersionMajor).$(GitBaseVersionMinor).$(GitBaseVersionPatch).0</Version>
			<FileVersion>$(GitBaseVersionMajor).$(GitBaseVersionMinor).$(GitBaseVersionPatch).$(GitCommits)</FileVersion>
			<PackageVersion>$(FileVersion)</PackageVersion>
			<InformationalVersion>$(FileVersion)+branch.$(GitBranch).commit.$(GitCommit)</InformationalVersion>
		</PropertyGroup>
		<Message Importance="high" Text="PackageVersion: $(PackageVersion)" />
	</Target>

	<Target Name="CopyPackage" AfterTargets="Pack">
		<Copy SourceFiles="$(OutputPath)..\$(PackageId).$(PackageVersion).nupkg" DestinationFolder="\someDestionation" />
	</Target>

This works correctly and packs nuget packages with versions "0.0.0." when ran with MSBuild.exe \t:pack, but when I introduced separate GitInfo.txt files with versions 1.0.0, the build fails, because the packing created a nuget versioned as "1.0.0", whereas the file I'm looking to copy is "1.0.0.0" - error.

Could someone please help me out? I know I can supply a version by using /p:PackageVersion=X.X.X.X but I don't know how to make that happen as part of my .csproj file.

EDIT: Seems the issue is coming from the fact that $(GitCommits) is 0, and because I'm sending 1.0.0.0 as the version, it gets trimmed to 1.0.0?

[kikaragyozov]

Seems this is related to #NuGet/Home#3050