notes about why

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notes about why

[BradleyA]

Bradley Allen will speak on How to embed version information into Git files while pushing to GitHub or GitLab.

Objective: I wanted to know what version a piece of code was on any system running it. The system may or may not be connected to any network. The system may or may not have Git installed. The system may or may not have access to GitHub repository or GitLab project. I wanted the same solution for several types of code. I wanted any person without knowledge of Git or GitHub or GitLab to be able to answer one question over the phone; What version are you running?

I will demonstrative a set of tools that allow you to meet this objective. It is what I call a wrapper around a few Git commands. If you have a GitHub repository and git installed on your laptop you can clone these tools and follow along. git clone https://github.com/BradleyA/markit

The first tool will git commit and git push to an existing GitHub or GitLab repository. In this process it will use the tag information with other metadata and enbed it into file(s). It supports these file extensions: UNIX shell(sh) perl(pl|PL) python(py) ruby(rb) PowerShell(ps1) PHP(php|php3|php4|ph3|ph4) R(R) YAML(yml|yaml) makefile(mk|MK) text (txt) c(c) C header(h|H|hpp) C++ header(hxx|Hxx|HXX) C++(cc|cpp|c++|cxx) Go(go) Java(java|class|jar) JavaScript(js) Kotlin(kt|kts) Pascal (p|pp|paa) Rust(rs|rlib) Scala(scala|sc) XML(xml) HTML (html|htm)

The second tool checks the current installed version to the latest version on GitHub repository or GitLab project.

The third tool searches systems for local Git repositories