Description

This utility can be used to automatically generate a version.go file with the current git tag version. To get the current version, it executes the following command: git describe --tags. This will then use the full string for gitcommit and the string up to the first "-" as the version, which will then be merged in version.go.

Install

go install github.com/marcelvanwaaijen/genver@latest

Usage

The Makefile in this repo shows an example of its usage. Just run genver before you build your project.

or you can use go:generate:

package main

import "fmt"

//go:generate genver.exe

func main() {
	fmt.Println(version)
      fmt.Println(gitcommit)
}

Extra options:

$ genver -h

Usage of genver:
  -o string
        output file name (default "version.go")
  -p string
        package name (default "main")
  -version
        show version