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 <executable_file>
On Monday, 6 February 2023 at 17:33:53 UTC burker...@gmail.com wrote: > 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-better-way-than-ldflags-to-add-a-build-version-to-your-go-binaries-2258ce419d2d?gi=c2bc81346d42 > . > > Hope this helps. > > quin...@gmail.com <quin...@gmail.com> schrieb am Mo. 6. Feb. 2023 um > 16:48: > >> >> 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/6f0a10e1-f818-4b98-8384-3fe925ec69dcn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/6f0a10e1-f818-4b98-8384-3fe925ec69dcn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/eb634451-e374-4db9-99c9-fb0f557eff7dn%40googlegroups.com.
