From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:40:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Best practice question
Message-ID: <8aa486160806190840m697ac1en3214626a56014be1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <485A6E03.6090509@et.gatech.edu>

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 16:32, 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.

You can look at how git does it:
It generates a GIT-VERSION-FILE with:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=GIT-VERSION-GEN;hb=HEAD

and reads it in the Makefile. Or you could generate a version.h file.

Santi