Azure Devsops Server gittools extension hanging on 'gitversion/execute' - takes 8.5 minutes

[blakeduffey]

Azure Devops Server 2022
GitTools extension installed

Pipeline snippet looks like:

# gittools setup for gitsemver versioning
- task: gittools.gittools.setup-gitversion-task.gitversion/setup@0
  displayName: gitversion/setup
  inputs:
    versionSpec: '*'
    preferLatestVersion: true
  
# gittools execute semver
- task: gittools.gittools.execute-gitversion-task.gitversion/execute@0
  displayName: gitversion/execute

I use these steps in other pipelines without issue

I'm using it in a new pipeline and it hangs on the gitversion/execute step for 8 minutes, 29 seconds.  Is this normal/related to the git history?  Is there a way to speed it along?  :)

[HHobeck]

I'm moving this to the discussion section because it seems to be not a bug report.

[blakeduffey]

So I'll clarify. I have an Azure Devops Server pipeline.

Using the legacy version extension

`steps:

• task: gittools.gitversion.gitversion-task.GitVersion@5
  displayName: GitVersion
  inputs:
  runtime: full
  configFilePath: GitVersion.yml`

This step takes about two minutes.

Using the current version

`- task: gittools.gittools.setup-gitversion-task.gitversion/setup@0
displayName: gitversion/setup
inputs:
versionSpec: '*'
preferLatestVersion: true

• task: gittools.gittools.execute-gitversion-task.gitversion/execute@0
  displayName: gitversion/execute`

The same source code/git history takes nearly 10 minutes.

Would appreciate any feedback that might point me in the right direction.

[HHobeck]

Hmm good question. @arturcic do you have an explanation for that behavior? Maybe it is solved in the pre-release version of git version!?

https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/releases/tag/6.0.0-beta.2