[ISSUE]: Unable To Run Commands On Azure DevOps

[bendursley]

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GitVersion package

AzureDevops task

GitVersion version

6.0.0 - 6.0.5

Operating system

Windows, Linux

What are you seeing?

We've got a set up where we use a GitVersion YML template file. We've been on v0 of the ADO tasks and 5.12 spec for quite some time and have finally upgrades to v3 \ 6.x, but now we're just getting 'Command Failed' on both Ubuntu and Windows, and the error messages aren't clear to the issue.

Command: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\GitVersion.Tool\6.0.5\dotnet-gitversion.exe D:/a/1/s /output json /output buildserver /config D:\a\1\s\pipelines\GitVersion.yml /updateassemblyinfo

##[error]Command failed: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\GitVersion.Tool\6.0.5\dotnet-gitversion.exe D:/a/1/s /output json /output buildserver /config D:\a\1\s\pipelines\GitVersion.yml /updateassemblyinfo

      - task: gitversion/setup@3
        displayName: 'Install GitVersion dotnet tool'
        inputs:
          versionSpec: '${{ parameters.GitVersionVersion }}' ##6.0.5

      - task: gitversion/execute@3
        displayName: 'Run GitVersion'
        inputs:
          useConfigFile: true
          configFilePath: '${{ parameters.GitVersionConfigurationPath }}'
          updateAssemblyInfo: true

What is expected?

Git Version correctly runs

Steps to Reproduce

Above tasks cause an issue, using them

RepositoryFixture Test

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Output log or link to your CI build (if appropriate).

Starting: Install GitVersion dotnet tool

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Task : Setup GitVersion Task

Description : Easy Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org) for projects using Git

Version : 3.0.0

Author : GitTools Contributors

Help : See the [documentation](https://gitversion.net/docs/) for help

==============================================================================

Running on: 'Azure Pipelines'

Disable Telemetry

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Acquiring GitVersion.Tool for version spec: 6.0.5

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Looking for local tool [email protected]

Directory C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\GitVersion.Tool\6.0.5 not found

Command: dotnet tool install GitVersion.Tool --tool-path D:\a\_temp\23d2f512-567f-4398-9d20-ab40f2291c6f --version 6.0.5

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GitVersion.Tool version: 6.0.5 installed.

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Prepending C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\GitVersion.Tool\6.0.5 to PATH

Updated PATH: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\GitVersion.Tool\6.0.5;C:\Users\VssAdministrator\.dotnet\tools;C:\hostedtoolcache\windows/dotnet;C:\agents\3.246.0\externals\git\cmd;C:\agents\3.246.0\externals\git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\5.0\bin;C:\aliyun-cli;C:\vcpkg;C:\Program Files (x86)\NSIS\;C:\tools\zstd;C:\Program Files\Mercurial\;C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\stack\3.1.1\x64;C:\cabal\bin;C:\\ghcup\bin;C:\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\dotnet;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin;C:\Program Files\R\R-4.4.1\bin\x64;C:\SeleniumWebDrivers\GeckoDriver;C:\SeleniumWebDrivers\EdgeDriver\;C:\SeleniumWebDrivers\ChromeDriver;C:\Program Files (x86)\sbt\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub CLI;C:\Program Files\Git\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\pipx_bin;C:\npm\prefix;C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\go\1.21.13\x64\bin;C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.13\x64\Scripts;C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.13\x64;C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Ruby\3.0.7\x64\bin;C:\Program Files\OpenSSL\bin;C:\tools\kotlinc\bin;C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Java_Temurin-Hotspot_jdk\8.0.432-6\x64\bin;C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.1.1-Q16-HDRI;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\wbin;C:\ProgramData\kind;C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\150\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.14\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\160\DTS\Binn\;C:\Strawberry\c\bin;C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\Strawberry\perl\bin;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\pulumi\tools\Pulumi\bin;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\maven\apache-maven-3.8.7\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Service Fabric\bin\Fabric\Fabric.Code;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Service Fabric\Tools\ServiceFabricLocalClusterManager;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\GitHub CLI\;c:\tools\php;C:\Program Files (x86)\sbt\bin;C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLIV2\;C:\Program Files\Amazon\SessionManagerPlugin\bin\;C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSSAMCLI\bin\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin;C:\Users\VssAdministrator\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\VssAdministrator\.cargo\bin;C:\Users\VssAdministrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

Set GITVERSION_PATH to C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\GitVersion.Tool\6.0.5

GitVersion installed successfully


Starting: Run GitVersion
==============================================================================

Task : Execute GitVersion Task

Description : Easy Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org) for projects using Git

Version : 3.0.0

Author : GitTools Contributors

Help : See the [documentation](https://gitversion.net/docs/) for help

==============================================================================

Running on: 'Azure Pipelines'

Disable Telemetry

Executing GitVersion

Command: git -C D:/a/1/s rev-parse --is-shallow-repository

Command: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\GitVersion.Tool\6.0.5\dotnet-gitversion.exe D:/a/1/s /output json /output buildserver /config D:\a\1\s\pipelines\GitVersion.yml /updateassemblyinfo

##[error]Command failed: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\GitVersion.Tool\6.0.5\dotnet-gitversion.exe D:/a/1/s /output json /output buildserver /config D:\a\1\s\pipelines\GitVersion.yml /updateassemblyinfo

Finishing: Run GitVersion

[DaleMckeown]

I am also having this issue. I am upgrading from gitversion/execute@0 to gitversion/execute@3 due to Node10 deprecation warnings in my pipelines.

- task: gitversion/setup@3
  displayName: GitVersion Install
  inputs:
    versionSpec: '6.x'

- task: gitversion/execute@3
  displayName: GitVersion Execute
  inputs:
    useConfigFile: true
    configFilePath: $(gitVersionFileLocation)

gitVersionFileLocation points to the correct location of my GitVersion.yml file.

Error:

##[error]Command failed: /opt/hostedtoolcache/GitVersion.Tool/6.0.5/dotnet-gitversion /home/vsts/work/1/s /output json /output buildserver /config /home/vsts/work/1/s/UoL.AspNetCore/Automation/GitVersion.yml

EDIT:

For me at least it seems to be a problem with the v6 spec. Targetting v5 works as expected:

- task: gitversion/setup@3
  displayName: GitVersion Install
  inputs:
    versionSpec: '5.x'

[bendursley]

Yup, I've just gone back to try that (it didn't work first time) but looks like it has this time round, targeting 5.x (Downloading 5.12)

Edit - just tried it on a different service with a large number of branches, and it failed with the error 'stdout maxBuffer length exceeded', so looks like it doesn't always work with v3 / 5.x

[arturcic]

Closed by #1278

[bendursley]

@arturcic I've tried the new version (3.0.2) and it worked at v3 / 5.12, for one of our repos.

However, it still failed with the buffer issue for another one. That one has got a lot of stale release branches (around 100 or so) - is the recommendation to clean up or tag them off, to reduce the amount of work the tool has to do?

[arturcic]

@bendursley yes, that is the recommendation, that will also speed up the running time of the tool as well

[bendursley]

@arturcic Will tagging the release branches off be ok? Or will that leave us in the same situation? (IE - we should just delete the release branches) Thanks for your help!

[arturcic]

tagging might help in terms of finding the version base, but that could still not improve much the max buffer situation, better to clean it up if possible