OK, a question that seems to be harder (for me) then it appears at first. I develop sites with the symphony framework. But some of the sites are put on servers to which I have no direct access. So, in order to keep track if the latest version is put, I have added a value in the HTML header of the login page. Now I always manually update this value (in the TWIG). And now the question I'm struggling with:

Is it possible to "automate" that the latest value of the GIT commit is added automatically (and transparently, so meaning no effort is required)?
I've been thinking of adding a value to the .env file and trying to get this populated with the correct value, but to be honest I'm a bit struggling to see how I can make this work....

If there are other suggestions to keep a decent version tracking which is relatively transparent for the actual users of the site, then that is of course also welcome...

CodePudding user response：

You can think about and select from at least 2 strategies

Clean and smudge filters

In-file replacement, as it (done|expect to be) now

As explained in Keyword Expansion chapter in GitBook

In the .gitattributes file, you can set a filter for particular paths and then set up scripts that will process files just before they’re checked out and just before they’re staged

I.e have some "magic-string" expanding into anything you want to have in WorkTree and collapsed into original form before placing back into repo, thus - don't appear as content-changes in git's history

Also, for anything you want to have, output of git describe (or any other inique-id generator) may be good candidate, you have to have only at least one tag in repo

Export-subst

External file, appearing on git archive operation in an archive-target automagically with any custom content inside. Can be included into any twig-template or page

No script-coding for smudge|clean filters, only file(s) with git log’s formatting and keyword-expansion processing