[RFC/PATCH] Print git describe output into the log file.

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Apr 13 01:20:40 PDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:25:54 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> Run git describe on build and push the output into xorg-git-version.h. Then
> print that out in the logfile.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> ---
> Do we want something like this? Suggestions for less dodgy implementations
> are welcome, but the current one passes distcheck.
> 
If this goes in, I'd like a way to disable it so I don't get "unknown
version" in all logs.  I already put the package version in the
builderstring so the version info is there.  Maybe just print this if
PRE_RELEASE?

Cheers,
Julien


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