From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Quinlan <danq@brtt.com>
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: help with git usage
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 01:07:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805090107.11838.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805072242.m47Mg1o0015578@rs40.luxsci.com>
Dnia czwartek 8. maja 2008 00:41, Daniel Quinlan napisał:
> 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.
Take a look how git, tig and Linux kernel does it with *VERSION* file
and Makefile (you can take a look at Makefile and GIT-VERSION-GEN via
gitweb web interface, e.g. at http://git.kernel.org or
http://repo.or.cz).
In short: use git-describe output.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 17:37 help with git usage Daniel Quinlan
2008-04-29 18:07 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-30 7:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-07 22:41 ` Daniel Quinlan
2008-05-08 0:16 ` Julian Phillips
2008-05-08 20:01 ` Dirk Süsserott
2008-05-08 23:07 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-04-30 12:02 ` Matt Graham
2008-04-30 13:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-30 8:22 ` Richard Quirk
2008-04-30 10:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-30 11:50 ` Richard Quirk
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