[Paparazzi-devel] How to get the paparazzi version you are using

[Felix Ruess]

Hi,

since it is a common question how to print the used paparazzi version I added a script to v3.9 that will print the used version using git describe.

To facilitate this we will create more tags in the future. So far I added v3.9.[012]_testing tags where appropriate. Stable releases (with even minor version numbers) will get tags like v4.0.0_stable

To get the new tags run: git fetch

To get the paparazzi version you are using, run ./paparazzi_git_version

It will find the next reachable tag and print something like

v3.9.2_testing-1-g72f4b21

which contains the most recent reachable tag, number of commits since then, SHA1 of that commit and whether the working directory was dirty.

For the above example:

most recent reachable tag: v3.9.2_testing

number of commits since then: 1

(abbreviated) SHA1 of the last commit: 72f4b21

and the working dir was not dirty.

As that will be only usable from that commit on you can get the same output via

git describe --match "v[0-9].[0-9]*" --dirty --always

Cheers, Felix