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Will

28 Oct, 2018 11:56 AM

Hi, I'm trying to make it so when I push a tag like 0.0.2, appveyor will patch my dotnet core assemblies with this version number. I don't want to patch the assemblies on general pushes to master since they won't have a valid version number.

My general approach is to use the for: statement like so:

for:
-
  # only for git-tagged releases...
  matrix:
    only:
      - APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG: true
  dotnet_csproj:
    patch: true
    file: '**\*.csproj'
    assembly_version: '{appveyor_repo_tag_name}'
    informational_version: '{appveyor_repo_tag_name}'
    file_version: '{version} ({branch})'

I've also tried the following branches filter:

for:
-
  # only for git-tagged releases...
  branches:
    only:
      - /\d\.\d\.\d/
  dotnet_csproj:
    patch: true
    file: '**\*.csproj'
    assembly_version: '{appveyor_repo_tag_name}'
    informational_version: '{appveyor_repo_tag_name}'
    file_version: '{version} ({branch})'

However, dotnet_csproj does not appear to trigger. I have a deploy: statement right after the dotnet_csproj and neither seem to be applying (I know I can use on: inside a top-level deploy to fix this, though).

I'm tagging the releases like:

git tag 0.0.2
git push origin 0.0.2

So annotated tags aren't coming into play here. My full appveyor.yml is on GitHub. How can I make it so dotnet_csproj only runs for tags? Thanks!

1. 1 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 29 Oct, 2018 11:46 PM

   

   This was an interesting problem :) Please check the simplified version of your YAML which should do it. There are comments inside to make it self-explainable, but feel free to ask any additional questions:

   # TAG_SCENARIO is a fake variable to leverage https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-configuration/#skip-matrix-jobs-conditionally
   environment:
     matrix:
       - APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: Visual Studio 2017
         RELEASE_ID: win-x64
         BUILD_ARTIFACT: nessie.exe
         TAG_SCENARIO: false # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
         
       - APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: ubuntu1804
         RELEASE_ID: linux-x64
         BUILD_ARTIFACT: Nessie
         TAG_SCENARIO: false # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<     
               
       - APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: Visual Studio 2017
         RELEASE_ID: win-x64
         BUILD_ARTIFACT: nessie.exe
         TAG_SCENARIO: true # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
         
       - APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: ubuntu1804
         RELEASE_ID: linux-x64
         BUILD_ARTIFACT: Nessie      
         TAG_SCENARIO: true # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
   
   build_script:
     - echo common build script
     
   for:
   -
     # only for NON-git-tagged releases...
     matrix:
       only:
         - TAG_SCENARIO: false # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
         
     skip_tags: true # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
     
   -
     # only for git-tagged releases...
     matrix:
       only:
         - TAG_SCENARIO: true # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
   
     skip_non_tags: true # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
   
     #version is ignored in for.matrix construct, because it is a general build level setting
     #https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-configuration/#specializing-matrix-job-configuration 
     #version: '{appveyor_repo_tag_name}.{build}'
     
     #place variables other than "shotcut" ({build}, {branch}, {version}) in msbuild-style, e.g. $(appveyor_repo_tag_name)
     
     #note that tag like AssemblyVersion should exist in .csproj to be patched.
     
     dotnet_csproj:
       patch: true
       file: '**\*.csproj'
       assembly_version: '$(appveyor_repo_tag_name)' # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
       informational_version: '$(appveyor_repo_tag_name)' # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 
       file_version: '$(appveyor_repo_tag_name).{build} ({branch})' # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  
     
     deploy_script:
       - echo tag deploy
   

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2. 2 Posted by Will on 30 Oct, 2018 05:13 AM

   

   Oh, that's great! Thank you Ilya. The comments make it very clear.

   Thank you also for the tips about version and the msbuild syntax.

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3. 3 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 30 Oct, 2018 06:00 PM

   

   Sure, feel free to ping any time :)

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4. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 30 Oct, 2018 06:00 PM.