From: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to embed a hash, tag or branch name?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:52:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090731095238.GG29909@nalle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ljm5ryar.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:27:50AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> You can embed SHA-1 of a _file contents_ (blob) using '$Id: $' keyword
> with `ident` attribute - see gitattributes manpage.
Great, thanks!
> The correct solution of embedding version number is to do it at
> _build time_, using e.g. script similar to GIT-VERSION-GEN used by
> Git itself and by Linux kernel. It helps if you tag your releases.
This would help, but I'm on cygwin/msysgit and compiling with a
microcontroller IDE MPLAB and PICC-18 compiler, so I really don't
want to dig deeper into build time integration at the moment.
Btw, I don't know how didn't notice that this is a FAQ:
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#Doesgithavekeywordexpansion.3F
-Mikko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-31 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-31 8:17 How to embed a hash, tag or branch name? Mikko Rapeli
2009-07-31 9:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-07-31 9:52 ` Mikko Rapeli [this message]
2009-08-01 12:38 ` Dirk Süsserott
2009-08-01 13:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-01 16:04 ` Dirk Süsserott
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