From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Avery Pennarun" Subject: Re: Best practice question Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:39:19 -0400 Message-ID: <32541b130806190939t2a26c6f7j987eb1c679d53b3a@mail.gmail.com> References: <485A6E03.6090509@et.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: stuart.freeman@et.gatech.edu X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 19 18:40:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9NBl-0002dr-Cv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:40:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752001AbYFSQjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:39:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751897AbYFSQjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:39:24 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.186]:17242 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751388AbYFSQjX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:39:23 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so848155fkq.5 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:39:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ENEcdsmr5V7B6Z+aAjCOojaB55s03KMVAtNJiEWdmWU=; b=tJ5Qbm9OPG+RqGVNVWDcrHHyfWUblmABJpdcpY7gBlbtsNtpzVMbbVmqGbpLAtX+7C sgqluWUwKdSiWy98plT9RXhXI2f/SDKzTpF0QOQo8C2FW36zs7kuiV+iyQryn4Sbkm02 mXzS0X5ZAI8VmXwWyq1kEiaXcFeU6+7eCmH3E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=gN7e/JgATxB+pIDTTJyPnOCJmgw5PhGT0KWU7xitBqdmMFiQL8HNJlLl5KK+zKj9ME T9jBeBDOp+FmVd0jn0jxTJ5AC6gIaAMiuPwrUDCpsvU2sevcuNSyrv+NdNUvJ7st27i8 5FLB/2Tu4Ma/lwMvYk22RHgsxCy76P9+db2VQ= Received: by 10.82.135.7 with SMTP id i7mr138563bud.42.1213893559436; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.100.5 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:39:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <485A6E03.6090509@et.gatech.edu> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 6/19/08, D. Stuart Freeman wrote: > My project has an "about" page that lists the version. I understand why > git doesn't do keyword expansion, but I'm wondering if there's a > recommended best practice for keeping that up to date. If you compile git yourself and run "git --version", it contains the current version number. You may want to do it the same way. See also the "git-describe" command. Have fun, Avery