GitDeltaDeploy: Version 3 – Configurable DeltaArtifactsFolder

In GitDeltaDeploy version 3, I wanted to make the ‘output’ folder of the extension configurable.
This output folder is where the files ‘ChangedItemFiles.txt’, ‘LastDeploymentGitCommitId.txt’ are saved. Same too with ‘DeltaDeployCompare.txt’ when debugging.

In previous versions, this was declared in the .targets file in multiple locations with a hard-coded ‘$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)/Report‘ in 23 different locations.

GitDeltaDeploy v3 now has ‘DeltaArtifactsFolder’ declared at the beginning of the targets file.
By default this has been set to {project}/bin/Delta, which is a change from {project}/Report’ that it was in v2.

However the DeltaArtifactsFolder property is configurable.
Developers can configure a <DeltaArtifactsFolder> in their TdsGlobal.config file with the path they wish to use, or by passing it into the build command with /p:DeltaArtifactsFolder=PATH_TO_FOLDER