Re: git gc seems to break --symbolic-full-name

From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Date: Jul 26, 2017, 00:21 UTC
Message-ID: <60331e4f-93a7-5ceb-1443-41212b9fb945@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 came to the following solution which looks quite simple (avoids comparing the output of git describe): git log -1 --format=%cd --date=rfc | xargs -I {} touch --date={} $TSTAMP

The care must be taken to put the timestamp file as a pre-requisite of the .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME target, and the build seems to work properly. This still smells hackish, but this time I blame make for an inability to specify the timestamps explicitly. :)