Re: Generate version file by hooks

From: Björn Hendriks <bjoern01@nurfuerspam.de>
Date: Mar 17, 2009, 16:40 UTC
Message-ID: <200903171740.26575.bjoern01@nurfuerspam.de>
In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A2AF280@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>

Hi John, hi Santi,

thanks for your help.

On Dienstag 17 März 2009 16:42:01 John Dlugosz wrote:

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> Isn't that what the existing file HEAD is for?  Possibly with a level of
> indirection.  So use
> 	git rev-parse HEAD
> any time you need that SHA1 value.  The HEAD is always updated, since
> that _is_ what defines the "current" commit.

That might be a good alternative to my call of git-log which I was not absolutely sure if it works under all circumstances.

In fact my problem is not to find out the SHA1 of the last commit in a script but to have that script called automatically each time git changes the commit. My idea was to use the git hooks for that, but as I explained I couldn't find hooks for all cases in which a commit changes.

I need git to do that because my application is a Matlab-project which I normally do not compile -- although there is a Matlab-compiler to get a standalone application, but within the Matlab environment you don't need to compile. It would be the same with my little bash-helper-scripts I manage also with the great assistance of git.

But now -- as I think of it -- I might as well put a script call into the Matlab-code to get the last SHA1 and find a different solution for the rare cases in which I really compile the Matlab-code.

Thanks Björn