From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:50:00 GMT
Subject: Re: git gc seems to break --symbolic-full-name
Message-ID: <47a657a1-422d-5947-87bb-8e5db5b8689b@list.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xrpKTuBTueyGGVz4doWMnbGQo+2qj2wbpPvXBaW-iDV2w@mail.gmail.com>

24.07.2017 07:02, Jacob Keller пишет:
> generally, I'd suggest using "git describe" to output a version based
> on tag, and as part of your build system set that in some sort of
> --version output of some kind.
I am not sure I understand that suggestion.
I can use 'git describe' (and that seems to be
what linux kernel does too), but I don't see
how can I get away without a temporary file,
maually comparing current 'git describe' with
the one stored, and updating that file in case
of a mismatch.
Could you please clarify? Maybe I am missing
some makefile trick which you assume I am
aware about. :)