It looks like heroku removes the .git directory when they compile the slug. From heroku console:
>> `ls .git` => "" You could try a post commit hook that grabbed this information. Cheers, Terence On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 02:38 -0800, Daryl wrote: > Disclaimer: New to heroku so I'm sure someone has figged this out, but > googling didn't help. > > Normally, I deploy via capistrano to servers and simply have a task > which takes a small part of the hash and posts it to a partial. > > So, on heroku, tried installing grit gem and then creating an > application helper to get the last commit via a Grit::Repo.new > (Rails.root + '.git') and then render it in a partial view but reading > the fine print on the read only file system detail on heroku I guess > that access to git is not supported. > > Has anyone got a workaround for displaying a bit of the git hash and > date in the footer of pages ? Or have I missed something blindingly > obvious ? > > thanks, > Daryl. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
