VCS Information Generator Tool

Allows to generate source code for your project's VCS (Version Control System) status.
Include this tool into your pre-build step to hardcode version strings.

• vcsinfo.exe - Windows 64-bit build.
• vcsinfo32.exe - Windows 32-bit build.

To get a help use --help argument.

Currently supported:

• Inputs: Mercurial (hg), Git, Subversion (svn)
• Outputs: C, C++, Java

Usage example:

Generate C header file for Mercurial repository with temporary file.
hg summary > version.txt
vcsinfo --hg --c version.txt version.h
del version.txt
Note that you could omit both -hg and --c as it is defaults.

Generate C header file for Mercurial repository using pipes.
hg summary | vcsinfo > version.h

Generate C++ header file for Mercurial repository in v1.x compatibility mode.
hg summary | vcsinfo --cpp --compat version.h

Generate Java class for Git repository treating new files as modification.
git status | vcsinfo --git --java --package com.test --newismod > version.java

Generate C header for Subversion repository ignoring properties change.
svn info && svn status | vcsinfo --svn --noprops > version.h

Sample output:

// Version Information
// Generated by the VCS Information Tool v2.0 (c) Denis Andreev, Built Sep  8 2019 at 00:42:26

#define MERCURIAL_REVISION   23u
#define MERCURIAL_MODIFIED  1
#define MERCURIAL_HASH         "6c784b7035ea"
#define MERCURIAL_BRANCH    "default"

#define VCS_REVISION   MERCURIAL_REVISION
#define VCS_MODIFIED  MERCURIAL_MODIFIED
#define VCS_HASH         MERCURIAL_HASH
#define VCS_BRANCH    MERCURIAL_BRANCH