# [PATCH] git-project-version

3 messages from 2006-08-04 to 2006-09-24. Participants: Santi Béjar, Petr Baudis, Santi.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5132

## Santi Béjar, 2006-08-04 21:48

Subject: [PATCH] git-project-version
Message-ID: <87bqr0tbo6.fsf@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87bqr0tbo6.fsf%40gmail.com

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Introduce an easy way for projects to get its git version. This is
something that other projects using git would like to do, and we don't
want them all reinventing the wheel.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
---
Hi *,

I would prefer an output with an explicit git string as:

v1.4.2-rc3-git46faaaf

Also I would prefer the dirty state with an ending M as in:

v1.4.2-rc3-git46faaaf-M

to use the same letter of the diff family.

   Santi

 Makefile               |    3 ++-
 git-project-version.sh |    9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d662bd6..7c4e360 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ SCRIPT_SH = \
 	git-applymbox.sh git-applypatch.sh git-am.sh \
 	git-merge.sh git-merge-stupid.sh git-merge-octopus.sh \
 	git-merge-resolve.sh git-merge-ours.sh \
-	git-lost-found.sh git-quiltimport.sh
+	git-lost-found.sh git-quiltimport.sh \
+	git-project-version.sh
 
 SCRIPT_PERL = \
 	git-archimport.perl git-cvsimport.perl git-relink.perl \
diff --git a/git-project-version.sh b/git-project-version.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..88b21fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-project-version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# First try git-describe.
+VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) ||
+VN=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD | sed -e 's/^/g/')
+
+dirty=$(sh -c 'git diff-index --name-only HEAD' 2>/dev/null) || dirty=
+[ "$dirty" ] && VN="$VN-dirty"
+
+echo $VN
-- 
1.4.2.rc3.g3f0a-dirty

```

## Petr Baudis, 2006-09-23 23:51

Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-project-version
Message-ID: <20060923235153.GH20017@pasky.or.cz>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060923235153.GH20017%40pasky.or.cz
In-Reply-To: <87bqr0tbo6.fsf@gmail.com>

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Dear diary, on Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:48:25PM CEST, I got a letter
where Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> said that...
> Introduce an easy way for projects to get its git version. This is
> something that other projects using git would like to do, and we don't
> want them all reinventing the wheel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>

Perhaps it would be more useful to have a flag for git-describe to
describe not the (HEAD) commit but your working copy (thus HEAD + check
for the dirtyness).

-- 
				Petr "Pasky the Hater of Too Many
					Commands" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
#!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)

```

## Santi, 2006-09-24 11:37

Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-project-version
Message-ID: <8aa486160609240437v44fc3f20ucf664f99af37f1c0@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8aa486160609240437v44fc3f20ucf664f99af37f1c0%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20060923235153.GH20017@pasky.or.cz>

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2006/9/24, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>:
> Dear diary, on Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:48:25PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> said that...
> > Introduce an easy way for projects to get its git version. This is
> > something that other projects using git would like to do, and we don't
> > want them all reinventing the wheel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
>
> Perhaps it would be more useful to have a flag for git-describe to
> describe not the (HEAD) commit but your working copy (thus HEAD + check
> for the dirtyness).
>

Sure.

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