Re: Generate version file by hooks

2009/3/17 Björn Hendriks [off-list ref]:

Hello,

I'd like to put the SHA1 of the current commit into a source file so that my
program can further process it -- put it into a log file for example.

You can look at what is done in git itself with the version number.
There is a GIT-VERSION-GEN that generates a GIT-VERSION-FILE with the
version number (it only updates the file if the version number has
changed). Then in the makefile you specify how to create it and which
programs depend on the GIT-VERSION-FILE:

GIT-VERSION-FILE: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE
        @$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
-include GIT-VERSION-FILE

program: GIT-VERSION-FILE

HTH,
Santi