Cloud Variables not being set using Nerdbank.GitVersioning with Gitlab CI - gitlab

Question

I'm using the Nuget package Nerdbank.GitVersioning to version my C# .Net DLL project and it is all working for local builds (tried within VS2017).
However when I try with the Gitlab runner to obtain the version number for use during my Nuget packaging steps none of the environment variables have been set regardless of what I have in my version.json file and/or using the nbgv cloud tool
My version.json file looks like this and is in the root of the repo;
{
"$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AArnott/Nerdbank.GitVersioning/master/src/NerdBank.GitVersioning/version.schema.json",
"version": "2.0",
"cloudBuild": {
"setVersionVariables": true,
"setAllVariables": true,
"buildNumber": {
"enabled": false,
"includeCommitId": {
"when": "nonPublicReleaseOnly",
"where": "buildMetadata"
}
}
}
}
My .gitlab-ci.yml file looks like this;
#Windows Configuration
variables:
GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY: "normal"
URL: "https://localhost/repository/nuget-hosted"
before_script:
- echo "Restoring nuget packages"
- 'nuget restore MyProject.sln'
#- echo "Installing NB.GV - GitVersioning Tool"
- dotnet tool install --tool-path . nbgv
vs-15-2017-release-develop-build:
stage: deploy
script:
- echo "Building in Release mode"
- 'msbuild my-project.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:PublicRelease=true'
- echo "Testing in Release mode"
- 'VSTest.Console.exe build/Release/MyProject.Test/MyProject.Test.dll'
- echo "deploying build to internal nuget"
- .\nbgv cloud
- set #output all env variables for debug
- nuget pack build/Release/MyProject/MyProject.nuspec -Version %BuildVersion% -Verbosity detailed
- nuget push MyProject.%VERSION%.nupkg -source %URL% -apikey [removed]
tags:
- vs-15-2017
I've tried various different combinations of setting the cloudBuild parameters but nothing ever outputs the variables to the environment.
A secondary issue (and may be related) is that setting buildNumber.enabled = true does not update the Gitlab build/job number too.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers
Dave

Answer 1

Nerdbank.GitVersioning doesn't have an implementation for GitLab CI that can set the cloud build number. It can recognize when running in GitLab CI, but has no code in the SetCloudBuildNumber method. Care to share a PR if you know how to make this work?