[SOLVED] Is there a short 7-digit version of $(SourceVersion) in Azure Devops?

Is there a short 7-digit version of $(SourceVersion) in Azure Devops?

I am trying to set our build names to a format of...

$(BuildDefinitionName)_$(versionMajor).$(versionMinor).$(versionPatch)+$(SourceBranchName).$(SourceVersion) e.g. OurBigLibraryCI_1.2.3+master.10bbc577

However I coudn't find any predefined variable holding the "short" (7-digit) version of the commit hash. $(SourceVersion) holds the full SHA-1 hash.

How would one shorten that in yaml based pipeline?

Solution

How would one shorten that in yaml based pipeline?

There is no out of box variable to get the 7-digit version of $(SourceVersion) in Azure Devops. Because the ShortSha is 8-digit version.

So, to resolve this issue, just like @4c74356b41 said, we have to use bash\powershell script to split long sha into short sha.

You can check my following sample for some more details:

steps:

- script: |
   echo $(Build.SourceVersion)

   set  TestVar=$(Build.SourceVersion)

   set MyCustomVar= %TestVar:~0,7%

   echo %MyCustomVar%

  displayName: 'Command Line Script'

The result:

========================== Starting Command Output ===========================
##[command]"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" /D /E:ON /V:OFF /S /C "CALL "C:\VS2017Agent\_work\_temp\be5f6293-77d8-41b7-a537-49e3b2e7bc6c.cmd""
cb124539c4cb7f19dc8e50e1b021f93c5ffaf226
cb12453
##[section]Finishing: Command Line Script

So, we could get the 7-digit version of $(SourceVersion) is cb12453.

Hope this helps.