How to increment build number in Ant
The corresponding magic all-answering Ant man page tells that you can increment the build number using the <buildnumber/> directive. If you insert this directive directly after the opening project tag of your build.xml file, the build number will be increased , every time any of the targets in build.xml are executed . In this way you can increment e.g. the minor version of your build and have not to write a custom extra task. You can also specify a custom "build.number" file with <buildnumber file="my.build.number"/> You can also limit the scope of the buildnumber directive by putting it only into a specific target.