Merge back

Merge back

Author: asiffermann

README.md

@@ -84,4 +84,6 @@ You can clean common files using `npm run clean`
 You can build node tasks using `npm run build`
 You can package your extension by running `npm run package`. Output will be placed in the `.BuildOutput` subdirectory at root.
 
-
+### Versioning
+You can set version by packaging with `npm run package -- --version <version>`.
+You can disable the default behavior which would encode the semver metadata into the patch component with the additional flag `--noversiontransform`.

extension-version.js

@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ exports.getSemanticVersion = () => {
         throw new Error('Package: invalid semver version: ' + version);
     }
 
-    var patch = semver.patch(version) * 1000;
+    var patch = semver.patch(version);
 
     if (!options.noversiontransform){
+        patch *= 1000;
         var prerelease = semver.prerelease(version);
         if (prerelease) {;
             patch += prerelease[1];