From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:39:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Best practice question
Message-ID: <32541b130806190939t2a26c6f7j987eb1c679d53b3a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <485A6E03.6090509@et.gatech.edu>

On 6/19/08, D. Stuart Freeman <stuart.freeman@et.gatech.edu> 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.

If you compile git yourself and run "git --version", it contains the
current version number.  You may want to do it the same way.

See also the "git-describe" command.

Have fun,

Avery