From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 03:57:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball
Message-ID: <20070520035752.GG3141@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd50wv88t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> 
> > Something like the following patch?  Since we're already embedding the
> > commit ID in a comment, we might as well offer creating a synthetic file
> > for it, too, if that solves a user's problem that might be difficult to
> > work around otherwise.

What about being able to get the output of git-describe embedded
into an archive file?  Doesn't git.git do that in its Makefile?  ;-)

git-describe is more human-friendly than a SHA-1...

-- 
Shawn.