On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-git-20080415@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello! > > As I want to use the latest commit id in all my projects, so I know > which commit the version is based on, I wrote an extremly simple script > that is based on git-show to display only the version named > git-project-version.sh. an equivalent simpler version is: git rev-parse [--short] HEAD Also "git show" is a porcelain command, that means it is for humans, not for scripts. The output of "git show" can change while the output of "git rev-parse" (and the plumbing) is stable. But maybe what you really want is: git describe [--always] Santi -- 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
