Re: current repository hash

["David Tweed" <david.tweed@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Alf Clement <alf.clement@gmail.com> wrote:
> What would be the best command to get a unique identifier?

Note that git itself does this via the GIT-VERSION-GEN script so you
could look at that for ideas.

> How can I make sure that a shorter hash id will be unique?

Theoretically isn't that going to be tricky, as you don't just want
something that's unique at the time you compile the program but which
won't potentially be rendered non-unique by later commits (after
you've released your binary)? If you just want to be reasonably sure
you can truncate the hash to the length you'd like, eg "addcc13a" for
8 characters and run

git rev-parse addcc13a

and see if it says

addcc13a
fatal: ambiguous argument 'addcc13a': unknown revision or path not in
the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

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