Package version gets version information from git to go

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Version runs git describe --always --long --tags --dirty and formats that info by default to stdout for you to view or pipe, or optionally in to a file (version.go) (see sample output below)

If you rather not include another package in your app then see verup. verup is a cmd you can execute at your main/cmd apps folder and it will do the same thing.

$ cat version.go

package main

//VarModTime is a UTC Unix time stamp
const VerModTime = 1530896805

//VarLong is the full version from Git command output
const VerLong = "0.2-14-g1051a2c-dirty"

//VarDirty means app was build with a git dir that contained modifications which had not been committed.
const VerDirty = true

//VarGit is the 7 hexadecimal digits version from Git.
const VerGit = "g1051a2c"

//VarTag is the Tag version from Git.
const VerTag = "0.2"

Alternative:

https://belief-driven-design.com/build-time-variables-in-go-51439b26ef9