On Wed, 7 May 2008, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
I'm looking for a way to embed some identifying information about
version
into compiled programs. I hasten to add that I am not looking to
expand RCS-like
tags. Unlike CVS/RCS, git provides a single value that characterizes
the whole
distribution, at least if everything is committed. So, something like
"git log | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'"
probably provides a value which I can embed into executables and
libraries, tying
them to a particular source configuration. I'm just curious if
there's a better approach
to getting the commit hash.
something like "git show-ref -s HEAD" perhaps?
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Julian
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