80.2 Generate git information

Both Maven and Gradle allow to generate a git.properties file containing information about the state of your git source code repository when the project was built.

For Maven users the spring-boot-starter-parent POM includes a pre-configured plugin to generate a git.properties file. Simply add the following declaration to your POM:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>git-commit-id-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Gradle users can achieve the same result using the gradle-git-properties plugin

plugins {
    id "com.gorylenko.gradle-git-properties" version "1.4.6"
}