From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:54:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Best practice question
Message-ID: <20080619145413.GA18563@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <485A6E03.6090509@et.gatech.edu>

On 2008-06-19 10:32:35 -0400, D. Stuart Freeman wrote:

> My project has an "about" page that lists the version. I understand
> why git doesn't do keyword expansion, but I'm wondering if there's a
> recommended best practice for keeping that up to date.

Usually when people ask this question on this list, the recommendation
is to have the build system generate a suitable version string. Look
at how git's own built-in version string is generated, for example.
(The GIT-VERSION-GEN script.)

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