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I use InDesign CC as the last step in document processing. The source is written in Markdown and converted via pandoc to an InCopy document which gets linked to a text frame in InDesign.

The whole process is described in Markdown to Indesign with Pandoc (via ICML).

For version control of the Markdown files I use Git.

Is there a way to link the Git log to an InDesign table to have a version list at the beginning of the document?

So, when I do a commit in Git, the table can be updated via an action script or the like?

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    You could create an InCopy document and place it. Any change to to doc will be noticed by InDesign. Another solution would be a post commit hook that triggers an Extendscript run. See this question and the git hook docs
    – fabianmoronzirfas
    Nov 8, 2017 at 4:24
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    You wouldn't even have to make an incopy file if you can get the git log output as an xml — indesign is really good at importing xml and auto styling it (you match paragraph/character styles to the xml tags). XML files are linkable and updateable, as you generate/overwrite the xml file, you update and, provided you've mapped the tags to styles correctly, voila, magically updated table/list!
    – bjornmeansbear
    Jun 5, 2018 at 3:44

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