[ISSUE]: The pipeline references a task called 'gitversion/setup & gitversion/execute'

[hgolay]

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GitVersion package

AzureDevops task

GitVersion version

3.2.0

Operating system

Windows

What are you seeing?

When using the gitversion/setup & gitversion/execute tasks on latest gitversion version 4.2.0.251104141 (Dernier) on our QA instance like so:

  - task: gitversion/setup@3.2.0
    displayName: Install GitVersion
    inputs:
      versionSpec: '6.3.x'

  - task: gitversion/execute@3
    displayName: Determine Version
    inputs:
      overrideConfig: $(overrideConfig)
      useConfigFile: ${{ parameters.useGitVersionConfig }}
      configFilePath: ${{ parameters.pathGitVersionConfig }}

We get the following error

A task is missing. The pipeline references a task called 'gitversion/setup'. This usually indicates the task isn't installed, and you may be able to install it from the Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com. (Task version 3.2.0, job 'run_build_job', step ''.)
A task is missing. The pipeline references a task called 'gitversion/execute'. This usually indicates the task isn't installed, and you may be able to install it from the Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com. (Task version 3, job 'run_build_job', step ''.)

When using the newer gitversion task like so:

  - task: gitversion-setup@4
    displayName: Install GitVersion
    inputs:
      versionSpec: "6.4.x"

  - task: gitversion-execute@4
    displayName: Determine Version
    inputs:
      overrideConfig: $(overrideConfig)
      useConfigFile: ${{ parameters.useGitVersionConfig }}
      configFilePath: ${{ parameters.pathGitVersionConfig }}

We get as expected the following error: ##[error]No agent found in pool Default which satisfies the specified demands: maven, Agent.Version -gtVersion 4.244.1 as we are not running the latest Azure DevOps (2025) update. We are still on Azure DevOps 2022.

What is expected?

On prod we don't have this problem, we suspect that it is because we have the full history of releases of the gitversion task so running:

  - task: gitversion/setup@3.2.0
    displayName: Install GitVersion
    inputs:
      versionSpec: '6.3.x'

  - task: gitversion/execute@3
    displayName: Determine Version
    inputs:
      overrideConfig: $(overrideConfig)
      useConfigFile: ${{ parameters.useGitVersionConfig }}
      configFilePath: ${{ parameters.pathGitVersionConfig }}

works correctly.

We would like to have the same behaviour on both our instances.

Steps to Reproduce

Install gitversion's latest versino on a fresh ADO 2022 server and run a pipeline with the following steps:

 - task: gitversion/setup@3.2.0
   displayName: Install GitVersion
   inputs:
     versionSpec: '6.3.x'

 - task: gitversion/execute@3
   displayName: Determine Version
   inputs:
     overrideConfig: $(overrideConfig)
     useConfigFile: ${{ parameters.useGitVersionConfig }}
     configFilePath: ${{ parameters.pathGitVersionConfig }}

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