Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:46:35 -0700

Hi Dirk,

Have a look at genVersionHeader.pl which is installed by Base since 3.15.0.1.

used here

https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/blob/4c192e7bba7d3ff13e3a076d0082d55e4d807fac/modules/database/src/ioc/Makefile#L48

and by the example template

https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/blob/d77a96d23d962f996f12e29255aa29beed64c1b1/modules/database/src/template/top/exampleApp/src/Makefile#L35

On 6/30/20 7:26 AM, Zimoch Dirk (PSI) via Core-talk wrote:
> 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