Automatically update project version on package

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Hello everyone,
I wanted to update my project version number every time i package my game.
I followed this post Automatically updating the Project Version # when project builds (two solutions) but this updates the project version every time i build even in visual studio, and i get a lot of commits in perforce which i don’t want.
Is there a way to call the C# program whenever the packaging phase starts instead of the build phase?

Thanks!

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For the current project, this is what I did in our Jenkins build:

  • Jenkins builds the editor
  • A jenkins build task checks out the config file after syncing to latest
  • Then, jenkins runs a commandlet (the solution you linked to)
  • The P4 changelist # is encoded into the version #
  • Jenkins then submits the config file change
  • Then, the build proceeds
  • There’s no source control code in the commandlet, I just let jenkins manage Perforce here. Simpler & more convenient.

If you have Jenkins maybe that’ll help. Happy to add more info if needed.

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We currently do not use Jenkins, if there’s another way to do it without it, it would be awesome. Otherwise we would have to look into integrating Jenkins in our project