From 20e5f3a1480b83b7977e6354a3ee133974067846 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kohlhase <m.kohlhase@jacobs-university.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:04:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] to (eventually; see  #25) automate the gitinfo2 hooks

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 lib/gitinfo2-hook.sh | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/gitinfo2-hook.sh

diff --git a/lib/gitinfo2-hook.sh b/lib/gitinfo2-hook.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9e6ddb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/gitinfo2-hook.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright 2015 Brent Longborough
+# Part of gitinfo2 package Version 2
+# Release 2.0.7 2015-11-22
+# Please read gitinfo2.pdf for licencing and other details
+# -----------------------------------------------------
+# Post-{commit,checkout,merge} hook for the gitinfo2 package
+#
+# Get the first tag found in the history from the current HEAD
+FIRSTTAG=$(git describe --tags --always --dirty='-*' 2>/dev/null)
+# Get the first tag in history that looks like a Release
+RELTAG=$(git describe --tags --long --always --dirty='-*' --match '[0-9]*.*' 2>/dev/null)
+# Hoover up the metadata
+git --no-pager log -1 --date=short --decorate=short \
+    --pretty=format:"\usepackage[%
+        shash={%h},
+        lhash={%H},
+        authname={%an},
+        authemail={%ae},
+        authsdate={%ad},
+        authidate={%ai},
+        authudate={%at},
+        commname={%cn},
+        commemail={%ce},
+        commsdate={%cd},
+        commidate={%ci},
+        commudate={%ct},
+        refnames={%d},
+        firsttagdescribe={$FIRSTTAG},
+        reltag={$RELTAG}
+    ]{gitexinfo}" HEAD > .git/gitHeadInfo.gin