Re: [PATCH 3/3] Refresh VERSION file when building distribution tarball in "make dist"

> On Thu, 31 May 2007, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> 
> > Maybe you can test the newly released tig 0.7 tarball?
> > 
> > Your patch was added as commit 8cdf56913e7e486bb3f527c24ee4a4d19f2a4f61,
> > with a few minor adjustments.
> 
> One of those changes was using HEAD version of VERSION file in
> "make dist", instead of regenerating it and replacing it with the one
> containing _current_ version in the tar file.
> 
> $ make rpm
> sed -e 's/@@VERSION@@/0.7.4.g1995120/g' < tig.spec.in > tig.spec
> git-archive --format=tar --prefix=tig-0.7.4.g1995120/ HEAD > tig-0.7.4.g1995120.tar
> tar rf tig-0.7.4.g1995120.tar tig-0.7.4.g1995120/tig.spec
> gzip -f -9 tig-0.7.4.g1995120.tar
> rpmbuild -ta tig-0.7.4.g1995120.tar.gz
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.72336
> Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.72336
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/local/builddir/BUILD/tig-0.7.4.g1995120'
> cc -Wall -O2 '-DVERSION="0.7.git"'    tig.c  -lcurses -o tig
> asciidoc -b docbook -d manpage -aversion=0.7.git tig.1.txt
> xmlto -m manpage.xsl man tig.1.xml
> [...]
> 
> Note the mismatch in the versions: 0.7.4.g1995120 vs 0.7.git
> (by the way, shouldn't it be 0.7.tig?), even when building from live
> repo, and not from tarball.