Need a way to embed git revision into executable when running cabal install
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Description
**Describe the bug**
When `cabal install` is run, instead of building in place, it copies to source to some other location and builds from that location. For example on my Mac it builds from somewhere like this: `/private/var/folders/zh/ln41q4zs52x2fd61rxccmq640000gn/T/cabal-install.-79645/dist-newstyle/tmp/src-79645/cardano-config-0.1.0.0`
As a result, whilst libraries like `gitrev` allow you to embed the git revision when you run `cabal build`, this does not work with `cabal install`.
There needs to be some mechanism to allow the build to capture the git revision when `cabal install` is used.
**To Reproduce**
On any project that uses `gitrev` or some similar git revision embedding library, run `cabal v2-install`.
Then observe that the the git revision is not embedded.
**Expected behavior**
The git revision should be embedded, or if not, some other mechanism needs to be provided to make this possible
**System information**
`cabal-3.4`
**Additional context**
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