From: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:02:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball
Message-ID: <59ad55d30705171002m503feb17l64fea9ffe2cf2297@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070517163803.GE4095@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On 5/17/07, Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> Michae, a friend of mine, is in the phase of migrating from git to cvs.
> He releases tar balls of his software project using gitweb. He would
> love to have a way to have the commit-id of HEAD of the export contained
> in one of the files he exported that way. Is there infrastructure in git
> that makes that already possible or does he need to some kind of
> gerneration tool by himself? Maybe it would be helpful if the
> git-tar-tree would generate a file .commitid or something like that in
> the generated tar tree.

Use git-get-tar-commit-id:

  $ gzip -cd snapshot.tar.gz | git-get-tar-commit-id

cheers,
Kristian