I (almost) understand the reasons for dropping NugetVersion2 but it leaves us with the problem of getting an acceptable version number into this and other package managers. The new formatting capabilities developed by @9swampy are great but we are left with getting it into the output, my current approach changing the format of assembly-informational-format works, but distorts that value.

What I'm suggesting is introducing a new variable to be computed which defaults to {SemVer} but can be changed in the configuration/parameters. This avoids changing existing variables and allows case-specific scenarios to be applied without introducing lots of different variables as I think the likelihood of needing more than one custom format not already covered is low.

The reason I'm suggesting a new variable is to compute this inside GitVersion using the information is has, rather than trying to compose it outside in a build server with the possibilities of additional formatting challenges.

Don't care what the name is UserVersion is a first-thought