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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stamp Git commit id into file during build process
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:17:07 +0100
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Heya,

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 20:14, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I think you are looking for "git rev-parse HEAD". This outputs the
> hash of HEAD as a single line on stdout. Or even better, you can use
> the "git describe"-tool, which gives a nice and short description of
> the commit relative to the most recent commit.

It would be better to have a look at gitattributes [0] instead.

[0] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html#_tt_ident_tt

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier