To get Git commit information

russjohn834

Hi All,

I want to add my Git commit information as a text with my "About software" section.
Is there an easy way to get this information in Qt?

VRonin

Are you using qmake or CMake?

The general idea is to have the makefile generator run git log -1 --pretty=%B (or whatever other git command) during the config step and save the output to a header file that you can include

russjohn834

@VRonin Thank you. I'm using qmake.

@VRonin said in To get Git commit information:

The general idea is to have the makefile generator run git log -1 --pretty=%B (or whatever other git command) during the config step and save the output to a header file that you can include

Can you show me an example?

VRonin

something like:

beforebuild.commands = git log -1 --pretty=%B > commitmessage.h
QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += beforebuild

of course you'll need to format the output better and use depends on your main program to make sure this target is run first