Re: Stamp Git commit id into file during build process

[Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com>]

2010/1/16 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am in the process of migrating from Subversion to Git.  One thing I
>> am unsure of is how to stamp the 'version' or 'commit id' into a file
>> as part of a build process.
>>
>> With subversion I used the SubWCRev tool from TortoiseSVN
>> (http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-subwcrev.html).
>>
>> With Git I imagine that I'd like to put a copy of the current commit
>> id (either the full hash or a truncated version of that) into a file
>> which then gets included into the program source code in some way.
>>
>> Is there a recommended way of doing this with git?  Perhaps with
>> something similar to SubWCRev?
>>
>> Currently I am thinking about using "git log", and grepping the output
>> in some way so that I just get the hash.
>
> Not "git log".
>
> Take a look how for example git project and Linux kernel use "git describe"
> in GIT-VERSION-GEN script, and how they use GIT-VERSION-GEN script in the
> Makefile.
>


Thanks, it appears though that "git describe" does not work in Cygwin git. :(


-- 
Paul Richards