Paul Richards <paul.richards@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html