GitVersion VS Nuget Package Manager

Compare GitVersion vs Nuget Package Manager and see what are their differences.

GitVersion

From git log to SemVer in no time (by GitTools)

Nuget Package Manager

Repo for NuGet Client issues (by NuGet)
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GitVersion Nuget Package Manager
12 29
2,721 1,476
1.0% 0.3%
9.7 8.5
6 days ago about 9 hours ago
C# HTML
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

GitVersion

Posts with mentions or reviews of GitVersion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.
  • Golang RESTAPI boilerplate repository
    7 projects | /r/golang | 2 May 2023
    Gitversion: It reads your commit history and generates a semver version out of it. Say you are compiling main branch and have a tag 1.0. Then, you squash 3 PRs. When you build this version, the new version number will be 1.0.3. You can configure it to be smarter about increasing major, minor, patch fields. I typically use prefix on the commit messages so that it generates versions correctly. See more at https://gitversion.net/docs/
  • Deploying Flutter applications to Google Play using Github actions
    5 projects | dev.to | 15 Sep 2022
    GitVersion is not available by default and needs to be installed beforehand if we want to use the features it offers. The action is available here.
  • How to automate the versioning of projects?
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 7 Sep 2022
    Check this out https://gitversion.net/docs/
  • Wrote a CLI application to increase .NET's projects version by Semver
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 29 Aug 2022
    At work we use https://gitversion.net/docs/ in our devops pipelines. Similaf to git-semver it generates a version based on what's published previously.
  • Managing Embedded SW revs?
    4 projects | /r/embedded | 10 Aug 2022
    Under Linux I use gitflow and gitversion. The former helps me with branch and tags management, the latter keep tracks of the semantic version in a semi-automatic fashion (given a branch/commit/tag it generate a semver automatically based on the repo log). Gitflow should be supported by GUI tools too, but I'm more a CLI guy.
  • Automating release notes with conventional commits
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 13 Dec 2021
    I know that GitVersion exists, which I think can automatically calculate the version number for me. But it's not entirely clear to me that it will do this. Also it doesn't seem to have a nbgv set-version equivalent that will just create a tag based on the calculated version number.
  • Kuberentes CI/CD
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 26 Oct 2021
    Kind of like you mention though, I tend to still create a build script using gitversion then just have the GitHub Action kick off the script. I find value in being able to create artifacts on a developer machine so having a simple script to run makes that as painless as possible and when I last looked a year or so ago there wasn't a good way of running GitHub Actions on your development machine.
  • Constant merge conflicts on csproj files
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 6 Oct 2021
    Self promotion: I made Verlite for this purpose, tho something like GitVersion might be more suitable for your workflow.
  • Artifact/Package versioning
    5 projects | /r/devops | 6 Mar 2021
    We use gitversion to generate semver based on commit height. https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion
  • What build tool(s) do people use for their applications?
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 8 Feb 2021
    GitHub - GitTools/GitVersion: From git log to SemVer in no time

Nuget Package Manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nuget Package Manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GitVersion and Nuget Package Manager you can also consider the following projects:

semantic-release - :package::rocket: Fully automated version management and package publishing

NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET

LibGit2Sharp - Git + .NET = ❤

GitExtensions - Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).

GitLink - Making .NET open source accessible!

Bonobo Git Server - Bonobo Git Server for Windows is a web application you can install on your IIS and easily manage and connect to your git repositories. Go to homepage for release and more info.

AxoCover - Nice and free .Net code coverage support for Visual Studio with OpenCover.

gradle-git-versioner - A Gradle plugin to automatically version a project based on commit messages and semantic versioning principles

NGit - Automated jgit port to c#

Verlite - Automatically version projects via semantic git tags with a focus on being lite, optimized for continuous delivery.

VSColorOutput - Color highlighting to Visual Studio's Build and Debug Output Windows

Web Essentials - Visual Studio extension