Continuous integration and software versioning

Question

I like the idea of automatically versioning my builds but I'm not sure what the right way is to get the AssemblyInfo.cs change back into source control (or should it not go into source control?). Is this something the CI server should be committing automatically for each build?

Using Bamboo at the moment.

Answer 1

We are using Teamcity as our CI server, and it comes with a feature called AssemblyInfo patcher

What this does, is temporarily add the teamcity build number in Assemblyinfo.cs, build generate the artifact and then revert the change. This way the generated artifact has the same version as the build number.

Source control can have the assemblyinfo.cs version entry as the current revision the developers are working on, with '*' as the build number. This can be updated after every release.

Edit 1: Since you are using Bamboo, here is a link that describes one way of setting the build number in the generated artifact in bamboo, without having to check-in the AssemblyInfo.cs.