Why is version patch not being incremented using Gitversion in Github Actions?

Question

I am using GitVersion with Github Actions with main branch.

When a new tag is pushed to main branch, e.g. v2.0.0, I want to increase the patch:

2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, ...

I have the following Github workflow:

name: Project
    
on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]

jobs:

  setup:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    outputs:
      version: ${{ steps.versioning.outputs.semVer }}

    name: setup

    steps: 

      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Dotnet
        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v4
        with:
          dotnet-version: '8.x'
 
      - name: GitVersion
        uses: gittools/actions/gitversion/setup@v1
        with:
          versionSpec: '5.x'

      - name: Versioning
        uses: gittools/actions/gitversion/execute@v1
        id: versioning
          
  build:

      // Remaining workflow code

And I also have the gitversion.yml settings file:

mode: Mainline
branches:
  main:
    regex: ^main$
    mode: Mainline
    increment: Patch
    is-mainline: true

And this is where the files are located in my project root:

Question

I pushed the tag v2.0.0 and after it I pushed the code to main branch.

The first version I got was 2.0.1 but every new push keeps producing version 2.0.1.

Why is patch not being incremented at every push to main branch?

Answer 1

Looking at the latest , try a setup with GitVersion 6, just to see if the issue persists there.

You can also ask GitVersion to print the version for the build, and to show the effective configuration for GitVersion: that can help confirm your configuration is correctly taken into account (or ignored, which could explain why your version does not change):

steps:
  - name: Determine Version
    uses: gittools/actions/gitversion/[email protected]
    with:
      useConfigFile: true

steps:
  # gittools/actions/gitversion/[email protected] action omitted for brevity.

  - name: Display GitVersion config
    uses: gittools/actions/gitversion/[email protected]
    with:
      useConfigFile: true
      additionalArguments: '/showConfig'

(See more at "Execute GitVersion Action (gitversion/execute) usage Examples")

For instance, the default name of the GitVersion config file is GitVersion.yml. Yours is gitversion.yml. The case difference might be an issue, hence the suggestion to use /showConfig.