From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:37:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] git describe without refs distinguishes dirty working tree
Message-ID: <7veip3t6rm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091016173902.GT10505@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Yea, 1.7 may be safer for this, but also many scripts are based
> on the GIT-VERSION-GEN in git.git which uses HEAD as an explicit
> argument.  So they might actually be OK with this change.

Well, from my cursory look of its scripts/setlocalversion, even the Linux
kernel is not safe X-<.

I still haven't heard anything that helps me to decide which way the
default should be.  The only concrete thing I have heard against the
change of the default is that it will break existing setup, but I haven't
heard anything concrete for the change yet.