Re: [Gnucap-devel] git repo proposal

[Kevin Zheng]

On 05/26/2013 09:01, Felix Salfelder wrote:
>> In my old system with RCS, that was semi-automatic as part of 
>> the checkin target in the Makefile.  Is there a way with Git to 
>> have it generate some kind of string as part of the program on a 
>> checkin?
> 
> the mechanism is quite simple: configure checks whether git is available
> and .git is a directory, then pastes the branch name into the constant
> GIT_BRANCH. anything else (commit id, description or even
> manual-override) should be trivial to add.
> 
>> In my own non-released work, I do change the patchlev string, 
>> for these reasons.

I think you might be looking for something along the lines of automatic
keyword expansion, which makes the VCS automatically inject a timestamp
into the $Id$ in the file.

I've never used this before with Git, and I don't know how well it
works, but I think it might be worth a shot.

The Git Book talks about this in a bit more detail under the "Keyword
Expansion" section:
http://git-scm.com/book/ch7-2.html

Thanks,
Kevin Zheng