Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

Hello,
Michae, a friend of mine, is in the phase of migrating from git to cvs.

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Man... You are _definitely_ on the wrong list. ;)

He releases tar balls of his software project using gitweb. He would
love to have a way to have the commit-id of HEAD of the export contained
in one of the files he exported that way. Is there infrastructure in git
that makes that already possible or does he need to some kind of
gerneration tool by himself? Maybe it would be helpful if the
git-tar-tree would generate a file .commitid or something like that in
the generated tar tree.

Hmm, doesn't seem like git-tar-tree (or git-archive for that matter) 
supports this out of the box. Maybe it's possible to achieve in combination 
with the $Id$ construct?

I guess it depends on whether git-tar-tree/git-archive actually does a 
checkout from the repo from which the archive is made. If so, it should 
be possible to store "$Id$" in .commitid, and check it in, and it should 
automagically appear with the correct commit-id in your archive.

Of course, it all depends on whether the $Id$ conversion is triggered by 
git-archive...


Have fun!

...Johan

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Johan Herland, [off-list ref]
www.herland.net