I was trying to figure out how to have autoincrement for c# projects that will work in the background, that works locally and that will not change on every build allowing you to build an app with the version stored in source control. And the result is this pre-commit script. It’s not perfect but it works for me. To use, put the file into .git\ho…

pre-commit

#!/bin/sh
#
# Update AssemblyFileVersion in every AssemblyInfo.cs if the files in solution
# change with the build part of the version number to be year & day of the year
# and the revision part with to be 1 & hour & minute.
# For example v1.0 commited at 15/06/2017 at 03:47 will become 1.0.17166.10347
#
# Known issues: does not work with subfolder changes

list_files() {
  for f in $(git diff --staged --name-only)
  do
    dir=$(dirname $f)
    find $dir -name "AssemblyInfo.cs"
  done
}

build=$(date +%y%j)
rev=1$(date +%H%M)
for f in $(list_files | sort | uniq)
do
  sed -i -e 's/AssemblyFileVersion(\"\([0-9]\+\)\.*\([0-9]\+\)*\.*\([0-9]\+\)*\.*\([0-9]\+\)*")/AssemblyFileVersion("\1\.\2\.'$build'\.'$rev'")/' $f
  git add $f 
done