From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:32:07 GMT
Subject: Re: `git describe` in an export-subst format string?
Message-ID: <7vobcypciw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFoDJR8RQExLwXcrViAJpWgvq+wBopY-Wq1keHxVqB3QwtAz4A@mail.gmail.com>

John Gallagher <johnkgallagher@gmail.com> writes:

> The actual thing I want to do is
> something like this:
>
>   static const char *project_version = "$Format:...$";
>
> where "..." is something that `git archive` will replace with the
> output of `git describe`,...

You need to find an appropriate pair of placeholders that can
represent "git describe $it" and "git describe --contains $it".

I am tempted to suggest a more generalized way that is not limited
to describe at all, perhaps like this:

    $ git show --format='%x( git describe %H )'
    $ git show --format='%x( git describe --contains %H )'