Re: Stamp Git commit id into file during build process

> 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.