Fetch_git_sha equivalent in the unified python sdk

[felixoi]

Hello,

I’m currently porting a project from python raven to the new unified python sdk. Howevery, with raven the release was set with raven.fetch_git_sha(GIT_REPO_ROOT). I can’t find an equivalent for this method in the unified sdk. What’s the way I should set it?

Thanks,
felixoi

[untitaker]

Hi, you can set the release on init like this:

init(..., release="my git hash")

However, there is no equivalent to fetch_git_sha in the new SDK! We felt that it did something quite unrelated to the SDK’s core function (fetch current HEAD of the git repo) and also a bit specific to how you deploy your code, so we didn’t port it.

You have a bunch of options right now:

• Copypaste the function from Raven into your own codebase: https://github.com/getsentry/raven-python/blob/d7d14f61b7fb425bcb15512f659626648c494f98/raven/versioning.py#L11
• Pick one of the solutions for fetching the current git commit hash from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14989858/get-the-current-git-hash-in-a-python-script
• Figure out if your deployment tooling provides a way to get a current “version” of the application and use that.