node-git-version

This module creates git-version.js file in the current directory containing an object with following informations:

• commit - SHA-1 hash of HEAD
• shortCommit - First 7 characters of the commit hash
• tags - Git tags attached to HEAD
• branch - Current branch tracked by HEAD
• remoteBranch - Branch on remote repository
• author - Raw string of the commit author
• authorName - Author name extracted from commit author
• authorMail - Author mail extracted from commit author
• merge - True if this commit merges commits
• mergeCommits - Array of short commit hashes merged
• date - An object with :
  • timestamp - The unix timestamp of the commit (in seconds)
  • gmt - The GMT formated date string
  • iso - The ISO 8601 formated date string
• summary - The first line of the commit message
• message - The entire commit message

This information is presented as Node.js module and can be used by Node.js app for getting version information

Usage

$ npm install node-git-version

Sample test file :

vargitVersion=require('node-git-version');gitVersion(function(err,data){if(err)returnconsole.error(err);console.log(JSON.stringify(data,null,2));},null);

Output :

{"commit": "de8f6b90ab190e6f2e95d1663cfa61186d269d67","shortCommit": "de8f6b9","tags": [],"branch": " master","author": "BilliAlpha <billi.pamege.300@gmail.com>","authorName": "BilliAlpha","authorMail": "billi.pamege.300@gmail.com","date": {"timestamp": 1527347037,"iso": "2018-05-26T15:03:57.000Z","gmt": "Sat, 26 May 2018 15:03:57 GMT"},"summary": "Fix various errors","message": "Fix various errors\n\nNow it works !\n"}