The `printVersion` should print `semver.version`

[sschuberth]

IMO it's misleading in the context of the releaseVersion task, which uses semver.version, that the printVersion task does not:

https://github.com/jmongard/Git.SemVersioning.Gradle/blob/8ffe01be99382e07e239c5a7a183c11972d97297/src/main/kotlin/git/semver/plugin/gradle/GitSemverPlugin.kt#L17-L25

I propose to introduce new tasks with the following mapping:

Task	Variable Used
printVersion	semver.version
printInfoVersion	semver.infoVersion
printSemVersion	semver.semVersion

Also, all of these tasks should really just print the version, without any "--------------------" separator or "Version: " prefix or similar. That way, e.g. ./gradlew -q printVersion could be used to pipe the calculated version to somewhere else (like a Docker image build).

[mrt181]

you can just pipe the output

./gradlew printVersion | grep 'Version: ' | awk -F' ' '{print $2}'
1.1.0-SNAPSHOT+001.sha.46a17d8

But it would be nice if that wouldn't be needed.

[sschuberth]

But it would be nice if that wouldn't be needed.

Exactly. I was also playing with ./gradlew -q :properties --property version (after assigning version = semver.version in my project), but that doesn't work either out of the box due to https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/19918.

[jmongard]

Sure, if it helps removing the separator and creating three different print tasks sounds good. I'm not sure if you could get rid of the other stuff gradle prints when running a task.

I build my docker images when pushing a tag or branch in github actions and grabs the version from the tag or branch name like this:

    - name: Set env
      run: echo VERSION=${GITHUB_REF##*/} >> $GITHUB_ENV

    - name: Pushes to docker registry
      run: |
        docker push $IMAGE_NAME:$VERSION
        docker push $IMAGE_NAME:latest      

[sschuberth]

I'm not sure if you could get rid of the other stuff gradle prints when running a task.

That's what the -q in ./gradlew -q does 😀

[jmongard]

The new tasks is implemented in version 0.5.2

[jmongard]

You could also call some executable from gradle giving you access to every variant of version output similar to this:

tasks.create<Exec>("build") {
    executable = "dotnet"
    args("build",
        solutionFile,
        "--configuration",
        configuration,
        "-p:Version=${semver.semVersion.major}.${semver.semVersion.minor}.${semver.semVersion.patch}.0",
        "-p:AssemblyInformationalVersion=${semver.semVersion}")
}