Re: bug: build from tarball uses git-describe

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: 2007-02-14 12:10:39
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Does this (totally untested) patch help?
> >
> > --
> >
> >  GIT-VERSION-GEN |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> > index 7a10b60..e6f89cb 100755
> > --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> > +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ LF='
> >  
> >  # First try git-describe, then see if there is a version file
> >  # (included in release tarballs), then default
> > -if VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
> > +if test -d .git && VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
> >     case "$VN" in
> >     *$LF*) (exit 1) ;;
> >     v[0-9]*) : happy ;;
> 
> Have you checked what the elif part does in the if statement you
> are patching?

It checks if the file "version" exists, and takes the contents of that as 
version, otherwise $DEF_VER.

> After all fresh tarball is how we build rpm packages and we do
> not have .git in that build environment, so I am quite puzzled.

Yes, the idea was: if there is no .git, do not even bother checking the 
output of git-describe (it might find a .git directory in a parent 
directory, after all).

Ciao,
Dscho

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