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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 23:57:52 -0400
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Ren=E9 Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
>=20
> > Something like the following patch?  Since we're already embedding =
the
> > commit ID in a comment, we might as well offer creating a synthetic=
 file
> > for it, too, if that solves a user's problem that might be difficul=
t to
> > work around otherwise.

What about being able to get the output of git-describe embedded
into an archive file?  Doesn't git.git do that in its Makefile?  ;-)

git-describe is more human-friendly than a SHA-1...

--=20
Shawn.