Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> Michae, a friend of mine, is in the phase of migrating from git to cvs.
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Man... You are _definitely_ on the wrong list. ;)

> He releases tar balls of his software project using gitweb. He would
> love to have a way to have the commit-id of HEAD of the export contained
> in one of the files he exported that way. Is there infrastructure in git
> that makes that already possible or does he need to some kind of
> gerneration tool by himself? Maybe it would be helpful if the
> git-tar-tree would generate a file .commitid or something like that in
> the generated tar tree.

Hmm, doesn't seem like git-tar-tree (or git-archive for that matter) 
supports this out of the box. Maybe it's possible to achieve in combination 
with the $Id$ construct?

I guess it depends on whether git-tar-tree/git-archive actually does a 
checkout from the repo from which the archive is made. If so, it should 
be possible to store "$Id$" in .commitid, and check it in, and it should 
automagically appear with the correct commit-id in your archive.

Of course, it all depends on whether the $Id$ conversion is triggered by 
git-archive...


Have fun!

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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