From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:53:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball
Message-ID: <20070521065355.GN3141@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070521063752.GB23350@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de> wrote:
> so maybe it isn't that useless as I thought it initial is. But my point
> still stands. I want the commit id of the HEAD in a _file within_ the
> tarball and I definitively don't want to tag my project before I get a
> unique identifier.

So what, a magic flag to git-describe like:

	git-describe --untagged HEAD
	1a8213...

Where --untagged just means "give me back the raw commit SHA-1 if
the input ref(s) aren't tagged"?

-- 
Shawn.