How can I label my build with revision number and not the GUID (in TeamCity)?

Question

I am trying to do \"continuous integration\" with TeamCity. I would like to label my builds in a incremental way and the GUID provided by the VCS is not as usefull as a simple i

Answer 1

When I used to use Subversion I used to do something similar in TeamCity. The format was:

{Major}.{Minor}.{TeamCity Build No.}.{Subversion Revision No.}

This allowed me to look at an assembly and see which build it came from on TeamCity and the revision number from subversion.

I have now moved to Git which has put me in the same situation as you. After playing with various ideas I have come to the conclusion that I don't actually need the revision, the build is good enough. Because TeamCity is such a powerful tool, all you need is the build number, given the build number you can look at the build history and determine the revision from that.

{Major}.{Minor}.{Macro}.{TeamCity Build No.}

Additionally you can get TeamCity to label your repository with the build number allowing you to look up a given build in your source control.