Wow, where should I start with this?

In simple words this is the adaptation of the https://github.com/git-commit-id/git-commit-id-maven-plugin, but for Gradle!
In summary the gradle plugin is designed to export git version info to gradle as properties which then can be used in the build.gradle and as a file in the build output. The git information can be used to make your builds traceable and reproducible as it will contain the vital information what commit was used when building.

This is a plugin long in the making (lack of time) and deserves some shutout:

• @ktoso (founder) for the initial idea of the git-commit-id-maven-plugin
• @jbellmann for starting the initiative to make the maven plugin available for gradle (git-commit-id/git-commit-id-maven-plugin#92)

Be warned this is the first baby step into the gradle world. While I have a good understanding of maven I intentionally released this as 0.0.1 as I suspect a billion things not working or utterly broken. So be warned this project comes shipped under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 license and therefore THE LIBRARY "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

With that being mentioned - I certainly do not want to break anything on purpose, but I also don't like finger pointed at me ;-)
Enjoy the plugin - I hope it serves your use-cases and feel free to create bugs/feature requests whatever you think may be lacking!