It would be nice to have the git commit hash or tag show up somewhere in the compiled binary about t-962-improvements HOT 4 CLOSED

Waiting on my T962A to arrive to help out more with this project! But I looked into this before for my own projects - long story short if you are talking about the $ID$ tag type thing from CVS, it seems to be 'un-git-like' and probably will never be supported. The next-best option is to have a script (perhaps running on cron, or one that happens automatically on git updates) that checks the revision you've checked out and writes that to a header file. Would love to hear if there is a better solution, but that's all I came up with before...

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I believe the generate-header-file (or rather: generate an implementation file and have a extern const char* version; in the header) is the way to go. You can add its generation to the build steps.
Bonus points for adding '-dirty' to the version if the source tree isn't committed :).

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Yeah, isn't the Linux kernel going the generate-header-file route as that one is showing a truncated git hash (plus -dirty) when building it from a git repository? This might be a moot point if we move away from LPCXpresso for building as then the normal techniques can be used. Good input!!

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Closing this for now, eras generated the git version data when building stand-alone - awesome! From within LPCXpresso I'm happy just providing "Unknown" for now. Any official release will be built stand-alone from now on.

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