Salesforce did something similar in their internal build, and TBH I do not find it a good idea. The basic problem is it's completely misleading to equate the last commit with the source you actually built from, because that might not have been an unmodified file set.
Indeed. What I've done in an svn-based project is to build the stamp from the Makefile basically when linking, that is really as late as possible. The other good point is that svnversion adds 'M' for modified if the source tree has uncommitted changes.
Maybe such an approach could be used with git to have something reliable. -- Fabien. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
