[ISSUE]: There's no NuGetVersionV2 anymore, and no zero-padded PreReleaseNumber

[Jaykul]

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GitVersion package

GitVersion.Tool

GitVersion version

6.0.1

Operating system

N/A

What are you seeing?

I was porting settings from a PowerShell module, and I get this error:

Unable to format AssemblyInformationalVersion. Check your format string: 'NuGetVersionV2' is not a member of type 'GitVersion.SemanticVersionFormatValues' (Parameter 'propertyOrFieldName')

What is expected?

I expected to be able to build a version like "1.2.3-beta0002" so I can upload packages to the PowerShell gallery. chocolatey, and other old nuget-based servers.

Note that the FAQ still refers to a NuGetVersionV2

Steps to Reproduce

Try using this in your GitVersion.yml

assembly-informational-format: '{NuGetVersionV2}'

The FAQ still refers to a NuGetVersionV2

RepositoryFixture Test

No response

Output log or link to your CI build (if appropriate).

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[arturcic]

Please see https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/blob/main/BREAKING_CHANGES.md#legacy-output-variables

[Jaykul]

So we need to stay on 5.x in order to version packages for anything that's not SemVer 2 -- like the official PowerShell gallery.

[asbjornu]

So we need to stay on 5.x in order to version packages for anything that's not SemVer 2 -- like the official PowerShell gallery.

Unfortunately, yes. But as a fix to this issue and probably a few other issues as well, would be for GitVersion to support arbitrary C# format strings, so you could create your own padded version number as such:

assembly-informational-format: '{Major}.{Minor}.{Patch}-{CommitsSinceVersionSource:0000}'

Something like that would be very powerful and definitely something I'd welcome pull requests for.

[HHobeck]

So we need to stay on 5.x in order to version packages for anything that's not SemVer 2 -- like the official PowerShell gallery.

Unfortunately, yes. But as a fix to this issue and probably a few other issues as well, would be for GitVersion to support arbitrary C# format strings, so you could create your own padded version number as such:

assembly-informational-format: '{Major}.{Minor}.{Patch}-{CommitsSinceVersionSource:0000}'

Something like that would be very powerful and definitely something I'd welcome pull requests for.

Do you know if already a feature ticket has been raised for this?

[asbjornu]

Do you know if already a feature ticket has been raised for this?

@HHobeck, no I created #4156 for it just now.

[ericnewton76]

I'm actually baffled as to why NuGetVersionV2 was removed... in favor of something more complicated like adding parsing of format strings into a config variable... ???

if NuGetVersionV2 was complicated to calculate then I can understand... theres a lot of people, inclding myself using GitVersion to properly calculate a usable NuGet version...