unfold/grunt-git-revision

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nice work! thanks :-)

Question about a use case

I'm trying to ascertain whether this might be useful for a particular use case. We are using Grunt on a number of Wordpress themes, and are frequently faced with the question of what branch is deployed on a given server.

Themes report their version via a string in the base stylesheet, which currently we increment on a per-branch basis. However, this is fragile and depends on people actually making the right change. It also tends to lead to branch conflicts when people let branches linger.

What I'd like to do is use this (or another tool) to append the most recent commit ID to a placeholder in the base stylesheet - and it looks like this plugin checks almost all of the boxes. However, it also doesn't seem to write the git commit ID to the file where I've placed <%= meta.revision %> - so I'm not sure whether I'm misunderstanding what it does, or if I should be looking somewhere else for the output of this tool?

Any advice (or a pointer to a FAQ or documentation) would be welcome.