You can change nextBuildNumber but there are some implications there.
Sounds like you're not only looking for an incrementer but a semantic
version handler. You do get new build numbers with multi-branch. I could
see something like that working by using a branching strategy for each
semantic major.minor release where build number is the patch version.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:09 PM Faad Sayaou <faad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The build number gets really large which is something we do not want.
> Would have been good if there was a way to reset it.
>
> On Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:01:39 UTC+1, Justin Harringa wrote:
>>
>> Any reason you couldn't use the BUILD_NUMBER environment variable for
>> this?
>>
>> On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 10:12:30 AM UTC-8, Faad Sayaou wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I would like to auto increment a number for every Jenkins build. I have
>>> a function which reads value (1.0.0.0) from a file which goes as follows
>>>
>>>
>>> String IncBuildNum() {
>>>
>>> def v= getVersion("path/to/file.xml")
>>>
>>> def splitted= v..split('\\.')
>>> splitted[3]= (((splitted[3] +1 as BigDecimal) + 1 ) as String)
>>>
>>> return splitted.join('.')
>>> }
>>>
>>> However, I will like to increase this number 1 for every Jenkins build.
>>> Right now
>>> Is this possible?
>>>
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