[Feature] Same version computed on different branches

[xpicio]

Describe the bug
Hello, to be honest i'm not sure if it is a gitversion issue or i'm not using gitflow right. But i hope you could help me.

I created this repository https://github.com/xpicio/compute-version to test incremental version using conventional commits, the repo is based on gitflow model and i'm using git tower with the gitflow plugin.

In the actual state (after i closed an hotfix, pushed both branches develop and main, and finally added a tag) when i compute the version on develop or main branch, the version is the same: 0.2.4. This behaviour is causing an issue in CI/CD pipelines, when i need to restart a pipeline (should happen to fix a bug on the pipeline) the artifacts tagged from the develop branch will assume the same version of the artifacts from the main branch.

Expected Behavior

action	branch	commit message	sha	version
close hotfix (random)
	develop		53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409	0.3.0-alpha.9
	main		53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409	0.2.4
new tag v0.2.4			53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409
	develop		53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409	0.x.x-alpha.x
	main		53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409	0.2.4

The version on develop branch is different to main

Actual Behavior

action	branch	commit message	sha	version
close hotfix (random)
	develop		53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409	0.3.0-alpha.9
	main		53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409	0.2.4
new tag v0.2.4			53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409
	develop		53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409	0.2.4
	main		53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409	0.2.4

The version on develop branch is equal to main

Steps to Reproduce

docker run --rm gittools/gitversion:6.0.0-beta.1 \
    /url https://github.com/xpicio/compute-version.git \
    /b develop

docker run --rm gittools/gitversion:6.0.0-beta.1 \
    /url https://github.com/xpicio/compute-version.git \
    /b main

Your Environment

• Version Used: 5.12.0, 6.0.0-beta.1
• Operating System and version: macOs Ventura 13.2.1
• Link to your project: https://github.com/xpicio/compute-version

[lcaiffa]

I follow the tread with interest, I also have the exact same problem

[HHobeck]

If you take a look to the following figure you see that the main and the develop branch points to the same commit which has been tagged with v0.2.4:

At this moment in GitVersion a commit which has been tagged will be used as the semantic version independent if a higher version exists. I have already thought about this scenario very often and think we need to introduce a new branch configuration to control the behavior whether or not to output the previous released version (in this case the tagged version) or the up-coming version. In this case you can configure it on the main branch and on the develop to get different results. To answer your question it's not a bug.

[HHobeck]

May I ask you why would you create a new build artifact without any code change? You could take the released version v0.2.4 ;)

[xpicio]

Usually i have 2 pipelines (or the same that work conditionally), 1 bounded to the main branch (where i have production release x.x.x), 1 bounded to develop branch (where i have alpha release x.x.x-alpha.x). When i'm working on pipeline should happen that something is wrong and i need to run again the pipeline, and the project repositories does not change.

[HHobeck]

Usually i have 2 pipelines (or the same that work conditionally), 1 bounded to the main branch (where i have production release x.x.x), 1 bounded to develop branch (where i have alpha release x.x.x-alpha.x). When i'm working on pipeline should happen that something is wrong and i need to run again the pipeline, and the project repositories does not change.

I'm not sure if I understood your scenario right: You have done a release and you start to make changes on your build pipeline (without any code change in git) and want to test the pipeline on develop?

[xpicio]

I'm not sure if I understood your scenario right: You have done a release and you start to make changes on your build pipeline (without any code change in git) and want to test the pipeline on develop?

Yes. With the repo at commit 53720f5d878cbc9eab27fbb127615c3e85971409 if i run the pipeline on main branch i will get 0.2.4-BUILD_NUMBER_MAIN (and it's ok), if i run the pipeline on develop branch i will obtain again 0.2.4-BUILD_NUMBER_DEVELOP (and it's wrong).