Add latest commit hash to site

[scottx611x]

This will aid in debugging which code is being used by a specific instance.
Potentially add this info within the About tab.

[ngehlenborg]

git rev-parse HEAD provides the commit hash. Alternatively we could use git describe. We should integrate this into our build process and store the git info either in the settings.json or in a separate file that we can access from both Python and JavaScript.

[scottx611x]

@ngehlenborg Sorry, I did not see this comment before I closed this issue, but I ended up using git rev-parse HEAD regardless.

[hackdna]

Note that if the subprocess call to launch git produces an exception the whole application will fail to start.

[scottx611x]

@hackdna Thanks for the heads up. Fixed this in 9dcd4f5.

[scottx611x]

fix try/except:754, add except Exception:

[hackdna]

include build/version number in UI for bug/error reporting

[scottx611x]

Closed with commit: a100b05

[hackdna]

Reopening, please see my comment on your commit for details.

[hackdna]

Fixed in f48b57f

[hackdna]

Running fe77b29. Commit URL is displayed as git@github.com:parklab/refinery-platform/commit/fe77b29e84accc87221daca0333d9f040c5f5db3.

[ngehlenborg]

Can you describe what you expect?

[hackdna]

The link is broken, it should point to Github, for example: fe77b29. In any case, this is not a priority at the moment.

[scottx611x]

@hackdna I'm not going to work on this immediately, but could you tell me what settings configuration you were using for this, as well as anything else that I would need to replicate the issue?

[drj11]

the "URL" comes from the git remote whence the git repo was cloned.

See this code in base.py: https://github.com/parklab/refinery-platform/blob/fe77b29e84accc87221daca0333d9f040c5f5db3/refinery/config/settings/base.py#L475

So if you used a git remote of the form git@github.com... then the URL will start with that, if you use a git remote of the form https://github.com... then it will start like that.

the AWS install uses https://github.com/parklab/refinery-platform.git as the remote, so it should get the right URL (haven't tried it, it's broken for other reasons right now. sigh).

We can of course translate from git@github.com: to https://github.com/ for github, but for other remotes we cannot in general know what the right translation is.

[scottx611x]

@drj Thanks for shedding some light on this!

[drj11]

As per my previous comment, it shows the right URL on an AWS install, because of the git remote I use:

The hover-over is cute. 🐼

[scottx611x]

Closing as now we just include the full SHA without a link.