adding git tag (version ) info and change history to website

Question

I am using Laravel for site development purposes. What would be nice is to have a button on the main page that shows the current version of the project. When clicking on the button, one would see all of the changes that have taken place (in the form of git commits) to the system. Is there a way to do this? If so, how?

TIA

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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On click of the button initiate an ajax call

$("#button").on("click", function () {
    url: window.location.origin + '/fetch-git-commits',
    type: "get",
    headers: {
        'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
    },
    success: function (data) {
        // data contains the git commit informations
        $(".container").html(data);
    }
});

In the Route.php file add an entry

Route::get('fetch-git-commits', 'YourController@getGitCommits');

In the controller

public function getGitCommits ()
{
   exec('git log', $output);
   $history = array();

   foreach($output as $line) {
       if(strpos($line, 'commit') === 0) {
           if(!empty($commit)) {
               array_push($history, $commit);   
               unset($commit);
           }
           $commit['hash']   = substr($line, strlen('commit'));
        }
        else if(strpos($line, 'Author') === 0) {
           $commit['author'] = substr($line, strlen('Author:'));
        }
        else if(strpos($line, 'Date') === 0) {
            $commit['date']   = substr($line, strlen('Date:'));
        }
        else {
            if(isset($commit['message']))
                 $commit['message'] .= $line;
            else
                 $commit['message'] = $line;
        }
    }
    return $history; // Array of commits, parse it to json if you need
}

References:

Reading a git commit message from php

Parse git log with PHP to an array

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Apr 05 '17 at 06:32

linktoahref

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Thanks for the info. How can one bring it into Laravel? – Casey Harrils Apr 05 '17 at 06:37
Oh sorry - did not see your entry about Routes.php. Will try this out. – Casey Harrils Apr 05 '17 at 06:42
Just an FYI, I tried the commands you mentioned (at the OS level) and got an interesting response – Casey Harrils Apr 05 '17 at 06:46
: $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD – Casey Harrils Apr 05 '17 at 06:46
029f8bbdecd21edcfc0dd1568be62b89367a364f – Casey Harrils Apr 05 '17 at 06:46
that's the commit hash – linktoahref Apr 05 '17 at 06:46
How would one get the text? I was also hoping to get tags as well. You know - the kind you see when you go to the Wordpress.org site and see the version history of a plugin. There is a tag to note the current version number as well as text to let you know what all was changed in that version. – Casey Harrils Apr 05 '17 at 06:47
Didn't you see the commit message, author and time when you'd executed the command? – linktoahref Apr 05 '17 at 06:48

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '17 at 06:54

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There is a little package for that:

https://github.com/tremby/laravel-git-version

answered Apr 05 '17 at 06:54

blueteck

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