Thanks for the ideas all, I think go embed is the best path for me.
runtime/debug will give me the revision but sadly it can't give me the
branch.
I want the branch as we run a microservice architecture and seeing that all
the microservices are running
the release branch and not master (or mai
Hi!
On Mon, 06 Feb 2023, quin...@gmail.com wrote:
> I would like to be able to extract the VCS branch name used during build.
> Currently I append "-X main.BranchName=${BRANCH}" to the build line which
> works, but I was hoping there might be a cunning way to extract this from
> runtime/debug?
Do you really need the branch? You get the commit hash for free since Go
1.18 : https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.18#go-version
You can see the embedded version information with: go version -m
On Monday, 6 February 2023 at 17:33:53 UTC burker...@gmail.com wrote:
> You can use go:generate and go:e
You can use go:generate and go:embed to achieve this. In our CI/CD pipeline
we generate a json file with a lot of information like vcs, branch, tag,
date and time, hash and a lot more. Then we embed this json into the binary.
I became aware of this technique from
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/a
Hi,
I would like to be able to extract the VCS branch name used during build.
Currently I append "-X main.BranchName=${BRANCH}" to the build line which
works, but I was hoping there might be a cunning way to extract this from
runtime/debug?
Thanks,
-Steve
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