Why is GitVersion including the word "tags" and doubling the version number?

[tfaris]

Hi,

We are tagging our repo in the following manner:

1.57.0-installer-test.3

Locally, when the gitversion commandline tool is used, we will see a SemVer like this, which is good and expected:

1.57.0-installer-test.3

However, we use GitHub actions to automate deployment of the software on pushing that tag. When run on the GitHub actions build server, the SemVer that GitVersion generates looks like this:

1.57.0-tags-1-57-0-installer-test-3.1

With the version number (1.57.0) doubled, the literal word "tags", and a ".1" added to the end. We're not using a GitVersion.yml config, but just relying on the defaults.

Thanks!

[HHobeck]

Please see related issues:

• [BUG]: GitVersion (in Azure Devops) calculating wrong version when building a tag #4015
• [ISSUE]: GitLab CI tag pipelines result in an incorrect version #4186
• Do not return the tag as branch name for GitLab CI #4187
• [ISSUE]: GitVersion crashes in GitHub Actions when an action is dispatched on a tag #4212

I think we have a common deficit here. I invite you to help.

[tfaris]

Indeed it is the same issue.

I appreciate the quick response. It turns out that searching for "-tags" is quite difficult!