[Buildbot-devel] short git hash property?

[Vitali Lovich]

I would also recommend using something like <branch name>-<short hash> when creating directories.

> On Feb 8, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Jared Grubb <jared.grubb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Note that the Git step itself will run the ‘git describe’ value for you if you ask it to. The description will be available in the “commit-description” property.
> 
> # to get the value from “git describe”
> Git(…, getDescription=True) 
> 
>  # to get the value from “git describe --dirty --abbrev=10 --match ‘buildbot-*'”
> Git(…, getDescription={ ‘dirty’: True, ‘abbrev’: 10, ‘match’: ‘buildbot-*' })
> 
> There’s some more docs: http://docs.buildbot.net/0.8.10/manual/cfg-buildsteps.html?highlight=git <http://docs.buildbot.net/0.8.10/manual/cfg-buildsteps.html?highlight=git>
> 
> Jared
> 
>> On Feb 7, 2015, at 10:28, Michael Labbé <mlabbe at gmail.com <mailto:mlabbe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks! This is exactly what I needed.
>> 
>> I imagine most Git users will end up with this issue, so maybe this is a good example for the manual.
>> 
>> Michael Labbé
>> 
>>> On Feb 7, 2015, at 1:13 AM, Kevin Funk <kevin.funk at kdab.com <mailto:kevin.funk at kdab.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Friday 06 February 2015 18:23:58 Michael Labbé wrote:
>>>> I am using the got_revision property to create files and directories to
>>>> deploy installers.
>>>> 
>>>> Long git hashes are rough and make everyone go crosseyed when they see them
>>>> in their file browsers.
>>>> 
>>>> How do I get a short git hash in a property in BuildBot? Or, because this is
>>>> literally just truncating the hash to 7 characters (28 bits), is there a
>>>> way to process the property on the server?
>>>> 
>>>> I’d do it in the tools being called in my build steps, but they are many and
>>>> range across platforms.
>>> 
>>> We just do it this way:
>>> 
>>> As one of the very first steps:
>>> 
>>>   addStep(SetPropertyFromCommand(command=["git", "describe"],
>>>       workdir="source", property="version"))
>>> 
>>> And then just use the "version" property instead of "got_revision".
>>> 
>>> Also has the benefit of getting the name of the last tag into the string 
>>> (useful for package names).
>>> 
>>> Greets
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -Mike
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