Easier linux build guide

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If you remove this from GitVersionExe.csproj

    <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(PackAsTool)' != 'true'">
        <TargetFrameworks>net472;$(TargetFrameworks);</TargetFrameworks>
    </PropertyGroup>

    <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(PackAsTool)' == 'true' ">
        <ToolCommandName>dotnet-gitversion</ToolCommandName>
        <PackageId>GitVersion.Tool</PackageId>
        <PackageDescription>Derives SemVer information from a repository following GitFlow or GitHubFlow. This is the .NET Core Global Tool allowing usage of GitVersion from command line.</PackageDescription>
    </PropertyGroup>

    <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)'=='net472'">
        <PackageReference Include="JetBrains.Annotations" Version="$(PackageVersion_JetBrainsAnnotations)"></PackageReference>
        <PackageReference Include="LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries" Version="$(PackageVersion_LibGit2Sharp_NativeBinaries)" />
    </ItemGroup>

You can then simply go to src/GitVersionExe folder and run dotnet publish -c Release -r linux-x64 --framework netcoreapp3.0 /p:PublishSingleFile=true which will produce a single executable in bin/Release/netcoreapp3.0/ubuntu-x64/publish/ that you can then easily use.

The documentation at https://gitversion.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/command-line/ lead me down a long winding path of curse words and head aches and in the end it still didn't work. So I decided to just check out the code and see if I could simply build it from source and in a matter of minutes it worked...

This is of course after following these steps to get dotnet core sdk3:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/linux-package-manager/ubuntu18-04/sdk-current

This issue is closed and notes about eventually being able to just use .net core #1229 that issue then relates to this PR #1269 which is now merged.

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[asbjornu]

I'm sorry this was closed without a reply. If you have suggestions for how the documentation around this can be improved, we would warmly welcome a pull request.

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