Hi, On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes: > > > I have no solution to this, apart from rewriting the Makefile on the > > fly whenever a release tarball is created. > > Well, there is always an option to update the fallback version > number hardcoded in GIT-VERSION-GEN script, but that kind fo > defeats the whole idea of the current setup, so... The whole idea of the current setup is working only if you have a git repository of git. Kind of a chicken-egg, right? So, why not just include GIT-VERSION-FILE in the tarball, and let GIT-VERSION-GEN check if there exists .git or $GIT_DIR before trying its voodoo? --- diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index 845b9dc..b65b214 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE +test -z "$GIT_DIR" && GIT_DIR=.git +test -d "$GIT_DIR" || exit 0 + VN=$(git-describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) || VN=v1.0.GIT VN=$(expr "$VN" : v'\(.*\)') if test -r $GVF - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Jan 11 01:49:42 2006
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