Stamping

Practical Bazel: Supporting Trinary Stamp Attributes
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Published: 2023-03-06
Practical Bazel: Supporting Trinary Stamp Attributes

In Bazel, stamping is the process of embedding additional information into built binaries, such as the source control revision or other workspace-related information. Rules that support stamping typically include an integer stamp attribute, where 1 means “always stamp”, 0 means “never stamp”, and -1 means “use the Bazel build --stamp flag. This blog post explains how to write a rule that supports these values.

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