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+/target/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+### Sample on how to generate a comprehensive version info including Git-commit-ids and build-times.
+
+Versioninfo is generated in the output-jar and also as Java-class for comsumption e.g.
+in user-output.
+
+- Ensure your project is in a Git-repositiory (with at least one commit)
+- Put `BuildVersion.java` in a new folder `templates` under the `src/main´-directory and modify 
+  as needed. 
+- Add `<resources>` and `<plugins>` from this pom.xml to your pom.xml
+- Add `<myapp.version>1.0</myapp.version>` to the `<properties>` section. This will be used
+  as main "end-user" version .
+- Run `mvn resources:resources` to generate the final buildversion
+- Now you can add something like `System.out.println(BuildVersion.BUILD);` to your code
+  to show the version to the user.
+
+With this also a git.properties file will be included in the output-JAR.
+
+Note: In `BuildVersion.java` don't put `@`chars before a template-field, otherwise it won't be processed correctly!
+
+See [git-commit-id-plugin](https://github.com/git-commit-id/git-commit-id-maven-plugin/blob/master/maven/docs/using-the-plugin.md) for more
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>net.mh3000</groupId>
+    <artifactId>VersionSample</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <maven.compiler.source>15</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>15</maven.compiler.target>
+         <myapp.version>0.1b0</myapp.version>
+    </properties>
+    <build>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/templates</directory>
+                <includes>
+                    <include>*.java</include>
+                </includes>
+                <filtering>true</filtering>
+                <targetPath>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/java/net.mh3000</targetPath>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>
+                <artifactId>git-commit-id-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>4.0.2</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>get-the-git-infos</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>revision</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <phase>initialize</phase>
+                    </execution>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>validate-the-git-infos</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>validateRevision</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+
+                <configuration>
+                    <dotGitDirectory>${project.basedir}/.git</dotGitDirectory>
+                    <failOnNoGitDirectory>true</failOnNoGitDirectory>
+                    <failOnUnableToExtractRepoInfo>true</failOnUnableToExtractRepoInfo>
+                    <generateGitPropertiesFile>true</generateGitPropertiesFile>
+                    <commitIdGenerationMode>full</commitIdGenerationMode>
+                    <skip>false</skip>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.0.0</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>add-source</id>
+                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>add-source</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <sources>
+                                <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources</source>
+                            </sources>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
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diff --git a/src/main/java/net/mh3000/versionsample/VersionSample.java b/src/main/java/net/mh3000/versionsample/VersionSample.java
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+package net.mh3000.versionsample;
+import net.mh3000.BuildVersion;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author mh
+ */
+public class VersionSample {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        System.out.println("Hello word");
+        System.out.println("Build  : "+ BuildVersion.BUILD);
+        System.out.println("Version: "+ BuildVersion.VERSION);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/templates/BuildVersion.java b/src/main/templates/BuildVersion.java
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+package net.mh3000;
+
+public final class BuildVersion {
+
+  
+
+    public static String BUILD =
+            "${myapp.version}@"
+            + "${git.commit.id.abbrev}@" 
+            + "${git.build.user.name}@"
+            + "${git.build.host}/"
+            + "${git.build.time}";
+    
+    public static String VERSION = "false".equals("${git.dirty}") ?
+          "${myapp.version}@"
+          + "${git.commit.id.abbrev}/" 
+          + "${git.build.time}"
+          :
+          "${myapp.version}@"
+          + "${git.commit.id.abbrev}(drty)/" 
+          + "${git.build.time}";
+
+
+}
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