Including the hash for the current git-commit in a C program
Say you wrote the following simple C program:
It includes a file "githash.h" that would contain the hash for the current commit in Git:
Because you're working with a Makefile, the file "githash.h" is generated by invoking 'git rev-parse HEAD ':
the file "githash.h" loooks like this:
But WAIT that is not so simple, once the file 'githash.h' has been created it won't be updated by Make as it already exists. This file should be removed each time 'git commit' is invoked. We can do this by creating POST COMMIT git hook: we create a bash script named ".git/hooks/post-commit" removing 'githash.h:
don't forget make it executable: `chmod +x .git/hooks/post-commit`
Now, each time 'git commit' is called, the file githash.h for the previous git-commit will be deleted !
That's it,
Pierre
2 comments:
The risk seems to be that if someone commits a second time without running make they could end up removing githash.h from the repository.
Perhaps a better solution would be to have a third file that githash.h depends on, a file that is touched by the post commit hook so that on the next make the file is recreated.
Why?
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