How to generate human-readable description of git commit
The following command assumes that you have at least one previous tag in the repository:
example.sh
git describe --long --tags --dirtyExample output:
example.txt
v0.1.0-9-g68066f4-dirtyThis means that we’re on the 9th commit after the v0.1.0 tag with commit ID g68066f4 and the working tree is dirty, i.e. there are uncommited changes.
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