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

git rev-parse HEAD will print what you probably want (e.g. id of HEAD commit). You can make ant generate a simple Java class with this id as a static constant.