Application auto build versioning

Question

Is it possible to increment a minor version number automatically each time a Go app is compiled?

I would like to set a version number inside my program, with an auto

Answer 1

Additionally I would like to post a small example how to use git and a makefile:

--- Makefile ----

# This how we want to name the binary output
BINARY=gomake

# These are the values we want to pass for VERSION and BUILD
# git tag 1.0.1
# git commit -am "One more change after the tags"
VERSION=`git describe --tags`
BUILD=`date +%FT%T%z`

# Setup the -ldflags option for go build here, interpolate the variable values
LDFLAGS_f1=-ldflags "-w -s -X main.Version=${VERSION} -X main.Build=${BUILD} -X main.Entry=f1"
LDFLAGS_f2=-ldflags "-w -s -X main.Version=${VERSION} -X main.Build=${BUILD} -X main.Entry=f2"

# Builds the project
build:
    go build ${LDFLAGS_f1} -o ${BINARY}_f1
    go build ${LDFLAGS_f2} -o ${BINARY}_f2

# Installs our project: copies binaries
install:
    go install ${LDFLAGS_f1}

# Cleans our project: deletes binaries
clean:
    if [ -f ${BINARY} ] ; then rm ${BINARY} ; fi

.PHONY: clean install

The make file will create two executables. One is executing function one, the other will take function two as main entry:

package main

import (
        "fmt"
)

var (

        Version string
        Build   string
        Entry   string

        funcs = map[string]func() {
                "f1":functionOne,"f2":functionTwo,
        }

)

func functionOne() {
    fmt.Println("This is function one")
}

func functionTwo() {
    fmt.Println("This is function two")
}

func main() {

        fmt.Println("Version: ", Version)
        fmt.Println("Build Time: ", Build)

    funcs[Entry]()

}

Then just run:

make

You will get:

mab@h2470988:~/projects/go/gomake/3/gomake$ ls -al
total 2020
drwxrwxr-x 3 mab mab    4096 Sep  7 22:41 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 mab mab    4096 Aug 16 10:00 ..
drwxrwxr-x 8 mab mab    4096 Aug 17 16:40 .git
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mab mab 1023488 Sep  7 22:41 gomake_f1
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mab mab 1023488 Sep  7 22:41 gomake_f2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mab mab     399 Aug 16 10:21 main.go
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mab mab     810 Sep  7 22:41 Makefile
mab@h2470988:~/projects/go/gomake/3/gomake$ ./gomake_f1
Version:  1.0.1-1-gfb51187
Build Time:  2016-09-07T22:41:38+0200
This is function one
mab@h2470988:~/projects/go/gomake/3/gomake$ ./gomake_f2
Version:  1.0.1-1-gfb51187
Build Time:  2016-09-07T22:41:39+0200
This is function two