Retrieving last tag of a working tree
I'm using msys git on Windows XP for version tracking embedded design project in C. I mostly work with GUIs (git-gui and qgit), I use bash only when I have to.
I need to be able to access version from software. To do that, I use tags to mark all released versions, and that version string is written to file version.h (the file is not tracked) by pre-build command:
#define KDK_SOFTWARE_VERSION "0.72"
Precompiler assigns this string to a variable. At this moment, version.h is filled by python script that calls "git-describe --tag HEAD" and parses the output. This works, but it's not quite reliable. There has to be a better way for getting the last tag of current working tree. If I checkout an earlier tagged version (0.70), I would need to automatically get 0.70 inside version.h
Can anyone shed any light on this?
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Precompiler assigns this string to a variable. At this moment,
version.his filled by python script that calls "git-describe --tag HEAD" and parses the output. This works, but it's not quite reliable. There has to be a better way for getting the last tag of current working tree. If I checkout an earlier tagged version (0.70), I would need to automatically get 0.70 insideversion.h
'git describe' is indeed the tool for this. You have not said in what way it fails, so here's an educated guess:
Up until 7e425c4 (describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight tags more often, 2008-10-13) which will only be in 1.6.1, using --tags does not match a lightweight tag if there is also an annotated tag available.
-Thomas
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.chQuoted 3 lines · the_jack
output. This works, but it's not quite reliable. There has to be a better way for getting the last tag of current working tree. If I checkout an
git describe?