make this auto increment the version number

[michaelonz]

Hi There-
I have a suggestion for a possible new feature that would be helpful to a lot of devs:

Would it be possible to get this action to have a property to increment the version number and display version number for us by 1

E.G

currently the action has these properties:

uses: managedcode/MAUIAppVersion@v1
with:
csproj: 'path/to/my-project.csproj'
version: ${{ github.run_number }} # to keep value unique
displayVersion: '1.0.0'
printFile: true # optional

add 2 new (optional) properties of :

incrementVersion: true
incrementDisplayVersion: Build

incrementDisplayVersion can have Major / Minor / Build ( these correspond to which part of the version # to increase by one - eg in a display version they map to which position to increase by one in the version # eg 1.2.3 if I put build that is position 3 so version 1.2.3 would become 1.2.4)

incrementVersion: true increases the Version # that is currently in the proj file by 1.

NOTE: when these increment options are specified then you dont need to supply a version or display version to the action as it will read the existing ones and increase them.

so we have:

uses: managedcode/MAUIAppVersion@v1
with:
csproj: 'path/to/my-project.csproj'
version: ${{ github.run_number }} # to keep value unique
displayVersion: '1.0.0'
printFile: true # optional
incrementVersion: true
incrementDisplayVersion: Build

This will increment the current Version # in minor position by 1 and also increase the buildDisplayVersion by 1.

By adding this it will make doing releases of new builds a lot more seamless rather than the dev having to manually work out version numbers.

[KSemenenko]

Nice, I love this idea

[michaelonz]

One more thing - for incrementVersion: and incrementDisplayVersion can we also have a valid value of reuse.

What this would do is read the exisitng version and just reuse it (means i dont have to specify a version#).

What i am thinking is this:

In my comments when i check in i can add a tag of REUSE to rerun the build with the existing numbers without increasing them - this is for cases where the last build had failed with a error and i want to rerun it with the next commit.

So i would call it with these properties:
incrementVersion: reuse
incrementDisplayVersion: reuse

So if i want to do a build and increment the version #'s then i would use: (once again i would trigger these properties from a comment):

incrementVersion: true
incrementDisplayVersion: Build

This means the dev can decide to reuse the last increased version or increase them based on a check in comment.