Hello, so maybe it isn't that useless as I thought it initial is. But my point still stands. I want the commit id of the HEAD in a _file within_ the tarball and I definitively don't want to tag my project before I get a unique identifier. Thomas - 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