Re: Stamp Git commit id into file during build process

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2010, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <201001162227.23236.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a1138db31001161312i2c032c38tcc0fb162c61fbb35@mail.gmail.com>

Dnia sobota 16. stycznia 2010 22:12, Paul Richards napisał:

> 2010/1/16 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>> Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com> writes:

>>> I am in the process of migrating from Subversion to Git.  One thing I
>>> am unsure of is how to stamp the 'version' or 'commit id' into a file
>>> as part of a build process.

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>> Take a look how for example git project and Linux kernel use "git describe"
>> in GIT-VERSION-GEN script, and how they use GIT-VERSION-GEN script in the
>> Makefile. 
> 
> Thanks, it appears though that "git describe" does not work in Cygwin git. :(

If you got something like

  $ git describe
  fatal: cannot describe 'a27cb622b30f18cb8510b7b3856d4029e617d95b'

it means that you don't have any tags in your history. You should tag your releases (released versions) using annotated tags.

Anyway you have

  $ git describe --always
  a27cb62

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland