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POHow can I auto increment the C# assembly version via our CI platform (Hudson)?
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copied!<p>Myself and my group are horrendous at incrementing assembly version numbers and we frequently ship assemblies with 1.0.0.0 versions. Obviously, this causes a lot of headaches.</p> <p>We're getting a lot better with our practices via our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration" rel="noreferrer">CI</a> platform and I'd really like to set it up to auto increment the values within the <code>assemblyinfo.cs</code> file so that the versions of our assemblies are auto updated with the code changes in that assembly.</p> <p>I had previously setup (before we found <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_%28software%29" rel="noreferrer">Hudson</a>) a way to increment the value through either <code>msbuild</code> or the command line (can't remember), but with Hudson, that will update the SVN repository and trigger ANOTHER build. That would result in a slow infinite loop as Hudson polls SVN every hour.</p> <p>Is having Hudson increment the version number a bad idea? What would be an alternative way to do it?</p> <p>Ideally, my criteria for a solution would be one that:</p> <ul> <li>Increments the build number in <code>assemblyinfo.cs</code> before a build</li> <li>Only increments the build number in assemblies that have changed. This may not be possible as Hudson wipes out the project folder every time it does a build</li> <li>Commits the changed assemblyinfo.cs into the code repository (currently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualSVN" rel="noreferrer">VisualSVN</a>)</li> <li>Does not cause Hudson to trigger a new build the next time it scans for changes</li> </ul> <p>Working this out in my head, I could easily come up with a solution to most of this through batch files / commands, but all of my ideas would cause Hudson to trigger a new build the next time it scans. I'm not looking for someone to do everything for me, just point me in the right direction, maybe a technique to get Hudson to ignore certain SVN commits, etc.</p> <p>Everything I've found so far is just an article explaining how to get the version number automatically incremented, nothing takes into account a CI platform that could be spun into an infinite loop.</p>

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