Publish as .NET Core Global Tool

[arturcic]

Implements #1464

I decided to implement it as a separate PR not as part of #1422 as that PR is blocked, and we can have a global tool without upgrading to .net core 2.1.

I have used the GitVersion.Tool as the package ID, even thought there is a GitVersion.Tools - this one has one version and a few downloads and I don't think it will be too confusing.

@gep13 , @dazinator what do you think?

[arturcic]

@dazinator thanks for the feedback, I made the changes, if you consider them ok I'll squash the commits and push them as one commit before merging

[dazinator]

LGTM!

[arturcic]

ok then, squashing the changes

[arturcic]

It's ready for the merge. Looking forward to see the global tool published.

[dazinator]

Merging, thanks @arturcic

[dazinator]

@arturcic might also be worth adding this here: https://github.com/natemcmaster/dotnet-tools/blob/master/README.md

[arturcic]

Yeah, that would be a great addition. Thanks

[arturcic]

Here it is natemcmaster/dotnet-tools#84

[arturcic]

@dazinator It was merged

[Crono1981]

I can't seem to be able to run it on my end.

dotnet tool install GitVersion.Tool -g --version 5.0.0-beta3-4
dotnet gitversion

I get the following error:

No executable found matching command "dotnet-gitversion"

I should mention that this is the first time I ever used dotnet tool so I might be missing something obvious. Any clue?

[gep13]

@Crono1981 once installed globally, you should be able to simply run:

dotnet-gitversion

there is no need to run dotnet first.

Run the command dotnet tool list -g to see all the tools that you have installed, and the commands that can be ran to execute them.

Hope that helps!

[Crono1981]

Thanks @gep13, I tried dotnet-gitversion too but then I get a message saying that it doesn't exist. Even though I do see it when I run dotnet tool list -g.

Maybe something is wrong with my PATH environment variable? I'll look it up later when I'm back to my office.

Anyway, now at least I'm sure that the correct way to run the tool is dotnet-gitversion. Thanks!

[Crono1981]

Yep, bad PATH value. Sorry I even bothered you with this. 😞🤦‍♂️

[gep13]

@Crono1981 no need to apologise. Glad you got it working!