npm install grunt-git-revision> Get current Git revision
~0.4.1If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
``shell`
npm install grunt-git-revision --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
`js`
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-git-revision');
to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().`js
grunt.initConfig({
revision: {
options: {
property: 'meta.revision',
ref: 'HEAD',
short: true
}
},
})
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#### options.property
Type:
String
Default value: 'meta.revision'What configuration property to write the revision to.
#### options.ref
Type:
String
Default value: 'HEAD'What ref to read the revision from.
#### options.short
Type:
Boolean
Default value: trueFetch short revision (e.g 5b8348d) or the full revision (5b8348de6b492ca79e732b1902c489332c8d64fb)
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`js
grunt.initConfig({
preprocess: {
options: {
context: {
revision: '<%= meta.revision %>'
}
}
}
})
``