Re: [new tool] git-project-version.sh

From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 15, 2008, 12:01 UTC
Message-ID: <8aa486160804150501p2f55a3e9g33df94c1d4274e48@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080415113629.GA17459@denkbrett.schottelius.org>

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-git-20080415@schottelius.org> wrote:

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> Hello!
>
>  As I want to use the latest commit id in all my projects, so I know
>  which commit the version is based on, I wrote an extremly simple script
>  that is based on git-show to display only the version named
>  git-project-version.sh.

an equivalent simpler version is:

git rev-parse [--short] HEAD

Also "git show" is a porcelain command, that means it is for humans, not for scripts. The output of "git show" can change while the output of "git rev-parse" (and the plumbing) is stable.

But maybe what you really want is:

git describe [--always]

Santi