Injecting current git commit id into Java webapp

Question

We have a git repository which contains source for a few related Java WARs and JARs. It would be nice if the Java code could somehow:

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Answer 1

I wrote an Ant task to get the buildnumber using JGit API (without git command line app), see jgit-buildnumber-ant-task. Then you can store this buildnumber inside MANIFEST.MF file and get it from the classpath on runtime.