HISE develop build does not show Git commit hash after building specific commit (VS2022)

[the red_1]

Hello everyone,

I’m facing a confusing issue with HISE develop build and I hope someone can clarify it.
I cloned HISE from GitHub at this specific commit:

3c36e36c0c27adf97be22206fdebf87ec9c7eeb0

Then I built the standalone app successfully using Visual Studio 2022 (x64, Release).
The generated executable is located here:

D:\HISE-3c36e36c0c27adf97be22206fdebf87ec9c7eeb0\projects\standalone\Builds\VisualStudio2022\x64\Release\App\HISE.exe

The build finishes without errors, and HISE.exe runs normally.

However, when I open Help → About HISE, I see:

Version: 4.1.0

Git commit hash: “current hash…” (not showing the actual commit)

Clicking Show commit on GitHub does not point to my commit

So it looks like the executable was built correctly, but it does not embed or display the Git commit hash, even though I built directly from a specific commit.

My questions:
Is this expected behavior when building HISE from source?
Is there an extra step required to embed the Git commit hash into the build?
Could this be related to building outside a Git environment or missing Git metadata during build?
Is the executable actually using the correct commit internally, even if it doesn’t show it in “About HISE”?

I’ve attached screenshots of:

The About HISE window

The Release\App folder containing HISE.exe

Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

[David Healey]

@the-red_1 in the source folder run git log and tell me what commit it shows at the top

[the red_1]

@the-red_1 I ran git log -1 in the source folder and got:

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

[the red_1]

@the-red_1

I rebuilt HISE after properly cloning the repository using:

git clone https://github.com/christophhart/HISE.git
cd HISE
git checkout 3c36e36c0c27adf97be22206fdebf87ec9c7eeb0

After rebuilding, the commit hash (short form: 3c36e36c) does appear in the About HISE window,
as shown in the screenshot, but it disappears shortly after.

So the commit hash is detected initially, then it vanishes from the About window.

[David Healey]

@the-red_1 said in HISE develop build does not show Git commit hash after building specific commit (VS2022):

git checkout 3c36e36c0c27adf97be22206fdebf87ec9c7eeb0

Why not build the latest commit? git checkout develop?

[the red_1]

@David-Healey I thought they were the same thing, I’ll give it a try.