From: Paul Richards Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:12:58 GMT Subject: Re: Stamp Git commit id into file during build process Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 2010/1/16 Jakub Narebski : > Paul Richards writes: > >> Hi, >> I am in the process of migrating from Subversion to Git.  One thing I >> am unsure of is how to stamp the 'version' or 'commit id' into a file >> as part of a build process. >> >> With subversion I used the SubWCRev tool from TortoiseSVN >> (http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-subwcrev.html). >> >> With Git I imagine that I'd like to put a copy of the current commit >> id (either the full hash or a truncated version of that) into a file >> which then gets included into the program source code in some way. >> >> Is there a recommended way of doing this with git?  Perhaps with >> something similar to SubWCRev? >> >> Currently I am thinking about using "git log", and grepping the output >> in some way so that I just get the hash. > > Not "git log". > > Take a look how for example git project and Linux kernel use "git describe" > in GIT-VERSION-GEN script, and how they use GIT-VERSION-GEN script in the > Makefile. > Thanks, it appears though that "git describe" does not work in Cygwin git. :( -- Paul Richards