This dirctory contains a set of git hook scripts which are useful when working with this repository to make the git commit id available when building simulators to uniquely identify the inputs to that build. It is ONLY useful for folks who clone this as a repository and build in the working directory of that repository. Folks who download zip archives of the repository do not currently have the ability to get the commit id which the archive is a snapshot of. Work is being done to solve this issue for uses of the archive snapshots as well. To use these scripts automatically, copy these files to the .git/hooks directory of the current repository. This can be done with the following commands: $ cd Visual\ Studio\ Projects/git-hooks $ chmod +x post* $ cp post* ../../.git/hooks/ Note: You ONLY need to copy these hook scripts once for a particular clone of the repository. Once these are installed they will survive as you pull subsequent revisions from the github repo. If you clone the repository to another platform, then you'll need to copy the hooks to the .git/hooks directory again.