Does not work if being run with Apache

[MartinPaulo]

I found that if I ran with Apache as my front end the command

git rev-parse --short HEAD

did not work, as it was not being executed in my projects home directory. To fix this, I added the following line to my projects settings.py:

SOURCE_REVISION_COMMANDS = [
    'git --git-dir=%s/.git rev-parse --short HEAD' % BASE_DIR,  # for git
]

Possibly a bit hokey, but I'm relatively new to both Python and Django. So all improvements are gladly accepted!

[senko]

Hey @MartinPaulo thanks for the bug report, I totally missed that case. Your workaround works, but I’m leaving this open as we should add a nicer way of doing / automating it directly in the package.

[shacker]

Facing the exact same challenge* - will follow @MartinPaulo's suggestion.

• Not with apache, but with a deployment system that copies the project dir to a non-git directory.

Also, you can now replace --git-dir with -C.