# adamralph/minver

🏷 Minimalist .NET packages, developed by humans, for versioning software or content using Git tags.

Repository: https://github.com/adamralph/minver
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/minver
Language: C#
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-07-21T09:42:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2888, "days_push": 43, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1007, forks 64 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:12.295950+00:00)

## What it is
MinVer is a minimalist .NET package that versions .NET SDK-style projects automatically using Git tags, applying SemVer 2.x versions to assemblies and packages at build time. It also ships as minver-cli, a .NET tool for versioning any software or content from Git tags.

## Use cases
- automatically version .NET projects from git tags
- apply semantic versioning to assemblies and NuGet packages at build time
- version non-.NET software or content using git tags
- generate pre-release and patch versions in CI pipelines
- stop maintaining version numbers manually in project files

## When to choose
- you build .NET SDK-style projects and want tag-driven automatic versioning
- you want a zero-configuration, minimalist SemVer 2.x versioning solution
- you release from Git tags and want versions applied during build or CI

## When to avoid
- your project is not built with the .NET SDK and you prefer a non-CLI solution
- you need complex custom versioning schemes beyond SemVer 2.x git tags
- you don't use Git

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: build-tool, version-control, developer-tools, cli
- domain: developer-tools, version-control
- platform: dotnet, cross-platform, cli
- tags: semantic-versioning, git-tags, nuget, versioning, msbuild, dotnet-tool, devops, command-line

## Member repositories
- adamralph/minver (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:12.295950+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:12:25.137364+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/adamralph/minver (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:12.295950+00:00, sha 484e493e4f1b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.