Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] pretty: add abbrev option to %(describe)

From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Date: Nov 7, 2021, 12:39 UTC
Message-ID: <13499fc1-1ac0-0a3a-b328-3aab5c37602b@archlinux.org>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2111040018240.56@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On 11/3/21 7:20 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi Eli,
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> 
>> My system has a custom compiled glibc from git roughly around the 2.34
>> release (a similar environment could be obtained by using Fedora rawhide
>> I guess), and this commit looks mighty suspicious:
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a1561c3bbe8e72c6e44280d1eb5e529d2da4ecd0
>>
>> For this reason, I did not bother to try testing v2 under a developer
>> build, leading to my overlooking this issue. ;)
> 
> It seems that this issue now hit an official version. As I explained in
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2111040007170.56@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/T/#u,
> my colleague Victoria Dye will send a fix for this later.
> 
> Stay tuned,

FWIW this was present in the official version of glibc released in August... the problem is finding an official version of a distro that ships it. :D

Thanks for the heads up.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User