Why is the name of the build# directory off by 1?

Continua CI Discussion
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I have my workspace directory set as follows:


M:\CI_WS\Ws

If I am running 1.0.0.14, the directory I see during the build is

M:\CI_WS\Ws\15

Am I missing something here?


2

I think this is because it’s the build number (internal) and has nothing to do with the version itself. Probably you have a 1.0.0.0 as version 1 so that explains why it is “1 off”.

If you go to 2.0.0.0, the next workspace number would be 16.

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The workspace folder is the internal build id, which is unique across all projects/configurations. It’s short, which is what we need, because windows has limits on file path lenghts (260 characters), we ran into it a lot when working on Continua CI and we had nice per project/config workspace folders etc… so we opted to use the build id to keep it as short as possible.