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From: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Add compiled date to git --version output?
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:17:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <544dda350909172117r44761577m11e7d30a1a5d0c91@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Sometimes I wanted to know how outdated git is on my system.

Coming up with a script to parse "git --version" output to get the SHA1,
and compare that to master's SHA1 seemed a little overkill compared to
this:

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 294337e..bc83491 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -361,6 +361,9 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)

 int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
-       printf("git version %s\n", git_version_string);
+       printf("git version %s compiled %s %s\n",
+                       git_version_string,
+                       __DATE__,
+                       __TIME__);
        return 0;
 }

With this, git --version gives:

        git version 1.6.5.rc1.19.g8426.dirty compiled Sep 18 2009 12:03:29

Thoughts?

Nazri

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-18  4:17 Nazri Ramliy [this message]
2009-09-18  4:43 ` Add compiled date to git --version output? Brian Gernhardt
2009-09-18  5:03 ` David Aguilar
2009-09-18  5:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-18  6:04   ` Nazri Ramliy

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