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 maven git commit id plugin
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 git-commit-id-plugin is a plugin quite similar to https://fisheye.codehaus.org/browse/mojo/tags/buildnumber-maven-plugin-1.0-beta-4 for example but as buildnumber at the time when I started this plugin only supported CVS and SVN, something had to be done.