Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Zimoch Dirk \(PSI\) via Core-talk" <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:26:48 +0000

Hi folks,

I have a technical git related question. For StreamDevice, I used to update a version header file manually, but I always
forgot to update the numbers when tagging a release. How can I do this automatically? Git has hooks, but none for tag as
it seems (which would be also too late to be included in the tagged commit).

The internet says: "No problem, simply generate the header (e.g. from 'git describe') when building your code." No
problem indeed as long as I have the git repo. But those users that download zip files from github instead of cloning
the repo complain now, as 'git describe' does not work for them, of course.

Is there a way to generate the version header (or any other file that contains the related tag) on github when pushing
the release, so it is included when downloading a release zip file?

Dirk

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System