Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 23:57:52 -0400

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> René Scharfe <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Something like the following patch?  Since we're already embedding the
> > commit ID in a comment, we might as well offer creating a synthetic file
> > for it, too, if that solves a user's problem that might be difficult to
> > work around otherwise.

What about being able to get the output of git-describe embedded
into an archive file?  Doesn't git.git do that in its Makefile?  ;-)

git-describe is more human-friendly than a SHA-1...

-- 
Shawn.