FAQ

Why does CSemVer define ZeroBased for CI-Builds and SimpleGitVersion uses ZeroTimed term?

Good catch! The ZeroBased simply specifies that the 0.0.0 version must be used (with the prerelease --ci.XXX.CIBuildName) but does not state what the XXX is. For its semantic version, SimpleGitVersion uses the commit's time down to the hundredth of a second:

0.0.0--ci.2015-03-14T19-06-24-42.develop

To support the short form, things get a little bit more complicated because of the 20 characters limit. SimpleGitVersion uses the number of seconds between the commit's time and the 1^st of january 2015, and this number of seconds is expressed in base 36 padded on 7 chars: 1000 years fit into 7 chars.

We also use -- trick.

0.0.0--00yI6aT-develop

The code is here.