From 7d0a2fe7e518726c35052c38aae3fc9b367f5fa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Snider <snider@host.uk.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 10:55:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat(build): inject version from git tag at build time

- Taskfile now injects AppVersion via ldflags
- Shows git tag (e.g., v1.0.0) when built from a tag
- Shows "dev" when built from non-tagged commit
- Add dist/ to .gitignore for build artifacts

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .gitignore   | 1 +
 Taskfile.yml | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f36a48f..bfb8938 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ coverage.html
 *.cache
 /coverage.txt
 bin/
+dist/
 tasks
 /core
 
diff --git a/Taskfile.yml b/Taskfile.yml
index 12b4872..de54895 100644
--- a/Taskfile.yml
+++ b/Taskfile.yml
@@ -1,16 +1,21 @@
 version: '3'
 
+vars:
+  VERSION:
+    sh: git describe --tags --exact-match 2>/dev/null || echo "dev"
+  LDFLAGS: "-X github.com/host-uk/core/pkg/cli.AppVersion={{.VERSION}}"
+
 tasks:
   # --- CLI Management ---
   cli:build:
     desc: "Build core CLI to ./bin/core"
     cmds:
-      - go build -o ./bin/core .
+      - go build -ldflags '{{.LDFLAGS}}' -o ./bin/core .
 
   cli:install:
     desc: "Install core CLI to system PATH"
     cmds:
-      - go install .
+      - go install -ldflags '{{.LDFLAGS}}' .
 
   # --- Development ---
   test: