Hi Eric, On Tue, 2 May 2017, Delanoe Eric wrote: > Could this kind of "keyword expansion" feature be added into GIT ? Back in the days, it was decided that this should be part of the "export as zip" functionality, see the `export-subst` feature in git-archive's and gitattributes' documentation. In reality, what most projects do is to generate a header or some such as part of their build process. Git itself may serve as a case in point: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/GIT-VERSION-GEN used in https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.12.2/Makefile#L390-L392 Ciao, Johannes