#19981 provide common dynamic git data to plugins Issue created by cburroughs Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As described in https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/tagging-docker-images#using-env-vars-to-include-dynamic-data-in-tags I'd like common dynamic git data like the sha or branch name to be available in BUILD files so they can be used to construct docker tags and other versioned fields. Describe the solution you'd like An object (

git

?) available with properties like

commit_id

or

branch_name

. Describe alternatives you've considered Fork off a bunch of processes in a shell as described in #17633 Additional context • Slack thread: https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C046T6T9U/p1678992567654969 • Some of this is in

src/python/pants/vcs/git.py

, but I couldn't figure out anyway to make that available in build files pantsbuild/pants