[RFC PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: set --abbrev=9 to match auto-scaling

From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2016, 20:45 UTC
Message-ID: <22e9dfa0-47fb-d6fd-caf4-c2d87f63f707@ramsayjones.plus.com>

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
---

Hi Junio,

I recently noticed that:

    $ make >pout 2>&1
    $ ./git version
    git version 2.11.0.286.g109e8a9
    $ git describe
    v2.11.0-286-g109e8a99d
    $

... for non-release builds, the commit part of the version string was still using an --abbrev=7.

I don't know that it actually matters too much (since it will show as many as necessary, thus the RFC), but it caused me to look twice. ;-)

ATB, Ramsay Jones

 GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 520d6e66e..05601f753 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ if test -f version
 then
 	VN=$(cat version) || VN="$DEF_VER"
 elif test -d ${GIT_DIR:-.git} -o -f .git &&
-	VN=$(git describe --match "v[0-9]*" --abbrev=7 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
+	VN=$(git describe --match "v[0-9]*" --abbrev=9 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
 	case "$VN" in
 	*$LF*) (exit 1) ;;
 	v[0-9]*)

-- 
2.11.0