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Subject: Re: [new tool] git-project-version.sh
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:06 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius
<nico-git-20080415@schottelius.org> wrote:
> Hello!
>
>  As I want to use the latest commit id in all my projects, so I know
>  which commit the version is based on, I wrote an extremly simple script
>  that is based on git-show to display only the version named
>  git-project-version.sh.

an equivalent simpler version is:

git rev-parse [--short] HEAD

Also "git show" is a porcelain command, that means it is for humans,
not for scripts. The output of "git show" can change while the output
of "git rev-parse" (and the plumbing) is stable.

But maybe what you really want is:

git describe [--always]

Santi