Question

I am writing some scripts and sending them to some friends, etc…

When i used SVN, i used to put the $Id tag on the file (pupulated by Eclipse) so i could clearly identify the file.

However, I can’t find a similar way to do it with egit/eclipse.

Any recommendation/help/suggestions?

Thanks

Answer 1

First, Git doesn’t have a keyword substitution mechanism:
See “Does git have anything like svn propset svn:keywords or pre-/post-commit hooks?“

“Moving from CVS to git: $Id:$ equivalent?” explains that git describe is the prefered way to reference not just a file version, but the whole repo commit (which includes that specific file version)

However, when looking at JGit (used by Egit), I don’t see any ‘describe‘ class.
So it might not be supported directly by EGit.