Help needed for understanding Gitversion properly

[nishanthcheruku]

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to implement versioning for my projects and somehow I am lost in implementing this GitVersion.

I have below GitVersion.yml and when I try to merge my PR I can see bump in patch version. What if I want to bump major/minor number? I am committing with message "BREAKING CHANGE: " but I still see that patch version is changed with no effect on major.

mode: Mainline
assembly-versioning-scheme: Major
assembly-file-versioning-scheme: MajorMinorPatch
branches: {}
ignore:
  sha: []
merge-message-formats: {}

In documentation, I also see mode: ManualDeployment. Is this different from Mainline.

I also tried experimenting "Continuous Delivery" and "Continuous Deployment" with naming the branch names like "Feature Branch" but nothing is working. Can you help in understanding the starting steps so that I can take it further. Though i read the documentation multiple times I failed to understand it thoroughly.

I also tried with below config:

mode: Mainline
branches:
  master:
    increment: Patch
  feature/*:
    increment: Major
    regex: ^feature\/.*
    source-branches: ['master']
  release/*:
    increment: Major
    regex: ^release\/.*
    source-branches: ['master']
  hotfix/*:
    increment: Patch
    regex: ^hotfix\/.*
    source-branches: ['master']

when I create feature branch with "feature/" and when I run dotnet-gitversion, I can see bump in major version. However after merge I see only patch version is changing