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This is a small issue. When I install gitver I had to install the deprecated datetime which is not used by any package I currently use. Could you switch to the newer datetime2 in order to keep the requirements for new package installations low?

Thanks a lot for this package.

"git describe --match nopenopenope --always --long --dirty --abbrev=6" is working fine with gitbash.
Unfortunately I've got an error message when using \gitVer with lualatex -shell-escape and the following code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[noheader,nopdfinfo]{gitver}

\begin{document}
\gitVer

\end{document}
Attached .aux and .log
LuaExo.log

\relax
\providecommand\hyper@newdestlabel[2]{}
\providecommand\HyperFirstAtBeginDocument{\AtBeginDocument}
\HyperFirstAtBeginDocument{\ifx\hyper@anchor@undefined
\global\let\oldcontentsline\contentsline
\gdef\contentsline#1#2#3#4{\oldcontentsline{#1}{#2}{#3}}
\global\let\oldnewlabel\newlabel
\gdef\newlabel#1#2{\newlabelxx{#1}#2}
\gdef\newlabelxx#1#2#3#4#5#6{\oldnewlabel{#1}{{#2}{#3}}}
\AtEndDocument{\ifx\hyper@anchor@undefined
\let\contentsline\oldcontentsline
\let\newlabel\oldnewlabel
\fi}
\fi}
\global\let\hyper@last\relax
\gdef\HyperFirstAtBeginDocument#1{#1}
\providecommand\HyField@AuxAddToFields[1]{}
\providecommand\HyField@AuxAddToCoFields[2]{}
\gdef @ABSPage@last{1}

It seems that all information is already there:

• \gitVer yields the hashtag (I am happy that it's without the #)
• \versionBox yields a combination of hashtag, date and other things

What I need is:

\gitDate which should yield 2020-11-16

Hello, thanks for this nice package!

You can associate a tag to a commit with git tag <tag name>, which is useful to set human-readable document version (when distributing it). I don't think such tags are currently used by this package. It would be nice if, when the current commit is associated to a Git tag, this tag could be displayed instead of the commit hash.

By instance, on commit #012345 associated with tag 0.1.0, \gitVer would give "0.1.0", \versionBox would give "Manuscript version: 0.1.0 - 2022-08-29 13:41", and the PDF metadata would be "Version 0.1.0".

Git tag can be extracted with git describe --tags --always for the current commit. If the current commit comes after a previous commit associated with a tag, <tag>-<number of commits since the tag>-<current commit hash> is returned. If the project has no Git tag, the current commit hash is returned.

This behavior could be the default, and would be disabled with a package option noGitTag.