[BUILDR-703] release: allow THIS_VERSION to be defined in another file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: Core features
• Assignee: Antoine Toulme
• Reporter: Willem Verstraeten
• Created: 03/Dec/14 21:15
• Updated: 03/May/16 06:16
• Resolved: 03/May/16 06:16

Description

The release task updates the field 'THIS_VERSION' in the buildfile itself.

If you have a project that maintains multiple branches of a product (say 1.x and 2.x), this leads to a non-trivial merge conflicts in an essential file.

It would be convenient if the version could be specified in a separate file. That way we can revert the file on each merge with less chance of introducing an error.