Automatically incrementing a build number in a Java project

Question

I\'m using a versioning system that is represented by a.b.build where a is the overall version (will be 0 for prototype, alpha and beta versions, 1 for major release), b is

Answer 1

You can use git commit count of the current branch as the build number. Use this command line to get the commit count: git rev-list HEAD --count.

Integrating with the build tools will be quite straightforward. If you are using Gradle then you can use this plugin: https://github.com/rockerhieu/Versionberg/