Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: May 17, 2007, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID: <200705171857.22891.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070517163803.GE4095@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

> Hello,
> Michae, a friend of mine, is in the phase of migrating from git to cvs.

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Man... You are _definitely_ on the wrong list. ;)

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> He releases tar balls of his software project using gitweb. He would
> love to have a way to have the commit-id of HEAD of the export contained
> in one of the files he exported that way. Is there infrastructure in git
> that makes that already possible or does he need to some kind of
> gerneration tool by himself? Maybe it would be helpful if the
> git-tar-tree would generate a file .commitid or something like that in
> the generated tar tree.

Hmm, doesn't seem like git-tar-tree (or git-archive for that matter) supports this out of the box. Maybe it's possible to achieve in combination with the $Id$ construct?

I guess it depends on whether git-tar-tree/git-archive actually does a checkout from the repo from which the archive is made. If so, it should be possible to store "$Id$" in .commitid, and check it in, and it should automagically appear with the correct commit-id in your archive.

Of course, it all depends on whether the $Id$ conversion is triggered by git-archive...

Have fun!

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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