Comments on: Using Git Versioning inside your XCode Project

By: orthorim

orthorim — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:41:00 +0000

It’s unbelievable Xcode doesn’t have any sort of auto versioning. Sigh.

I just don’t bother anymore. I change it manually for versions that ship, which is fair enough. And for the zillions of test versions, TestFlightApp actually creates #NN versions for you so it’s no issue.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:27:00 +0000

I used this script instead. It fetches the last tag you used:

git=git
touch ./WorldWithoutEnd/Resources/Info.plist
version=`$git describe –match “*” –dirty`
version=`echo $version | sed ‘s/[a-zA-Z]*//’`
versionNum=`$git describe –match “*”`
versionNum=`echo $versionNum | sed ‘s/-[0-9]*-[a-zA-Z0-9]*//’`
echo “#define GIT_VERSION $version” > InfoPlist.h
echo “#define APP_VERSION $versionNum” >> InfoPlist.h

By: Valerii Hiora

Valerii Hiora — Thu, 05 May 2011 09:28:00 +0000

James, thanks for sharing.

There is one short note regarding InfoPlist keys – CFBundleVersion should be GIT_VERSION and CFBundleShortVersionString should be APP_VERSION as the first is supposed to be used by developers and the second one will be shown to users everywhere and git revisions can be confusing

By: Raunak Poddar

Raunak Poddar — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:53:00 +0000

O… It’s working now. The distribution configuration was created after the XCode setup for Git. I just deleted the previous GenGitVersion script and repeated the steps given under XCode setup in this page. Worked like a charm.
Thanks.

By: Raunak Poddar

Raunak Poddar — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:37:00 +0000

Hi James,

The feature doesn’t work on the Distribution version of an iPhone app. When logging CFBundleVersion it prints GIT_VERSION instead of 0.0.5 (or whatever). Works good on the debug and release versions though.

By: Blind Genius

Blind Genius — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:24:00 +0000

Add the script as a Pre-Action on the build phase of the scheme for your target, then it will be run before the compilation

By: Blind Genius

Blind Genius — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:48:00 +0000

Thanks this helped me out a lot.

With regards to XCode 4 not having run scripts, it does but now they are located under Schemes.

To get this script to run correctly you must add this script as a pre-build script and dont forget to add #!/bin/sh in the shell text field as it is not added by default as it was in xcode 3.x.

Thanks again

By: Raunak Poddar

Raunak Poddar — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:17:00 +0000

Thanks a lot James.

By: James Van Metre

James Van Metre — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:11:37 +0000

This was written for Xcode 3, however after searching for shell script target, and Xcode 4, I was able to find out where it is located in Xcode 4. You have to add an “Aggregate Target” first, and then you can click on that and Click on the tab “Build Phases”, and on the bottom right you can “Add Build Phase” , which will let you “Add a Run Script”. Everything else is pretty much the same.

By: Eric-Paul Lecluse

Eric-Paul Lecluse — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Was this written for Xcode 3 or 4? I’m on 4 now and I can’t find the “Shell Script Target”. Neither in the iOS nor the Mac OS X category. An alternative is to add a script as a build phase, but those scripts are executed *after* the Info.plist is preprocessed, so it doesn’t update the git-described version correctly.

Any advice? Cheers, Eric-Paul.