Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. So what, a magic flag to git-describe like: git-describe --untagged HEAD 1a8213... Where --untagged just means "give me back the raw commit SHA-1 if the input ref(s) aren't tagged"? -- Shawn. - 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