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Retrieving last tag of a working tree

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Tthe_jack <josip@yopmail.com>
Date
Dec 18, 2008, 12:07 UTC
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I'm using msys git on Windows XP for version tracking embedded design project in C. I mostly work with GUIs (git-gui and qgit), I use bash only when I have to.

I need to be able to access version from software. To do that, I use tags to mark all released versions, and that version string is written to file version.h (the file is not tracked) by pre-build command:

#define KDK_SOFTWARE_VERSION "0.72"

Precompiler assigns this string to a variable. At this moment, version.h is filled by python script that calls "git-describe --tag HEAD" and parses the output. This works, but it's not quite reliable. There has to be a better way for getting the last tag of current working tree. If I checkout an earlier tagged version (0.70), I would need to automatically get 0.70 inside version.h

Can anyone shed any light on this?
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