Re: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: Use standard versioning suffix

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Sep 5, 2025, 12:32 UTC
Message-ID: <8e8255bf-79d0-41ee-85a9-d664ee01b5ae@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250905-semver-v1-1-3f6dd32f71a3@pengutronix.de>

Hi

The following might not be immediately relevant in light of what brian just wrote.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2025, at 14:14, Jonas Rebmann wrote:

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> This is not semver compliant which makes the output harder to parse in
> tooling such as b4, which currently errors out when using a snapshot
> build of git.
>
> For snapshot builds, use as version string the unmodified git-describe
> output with only the leading v stripped from the tag.
>
> Fixes: 5c7d3c9507f7 ("Allow building of RPM from interim snapshot.")

For other readers: this can be traced back to from

• `git log -S'VN=$(echo "$VN"' GIT-VERSION-GEN`
• which finds 374dfaa2e39 (Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git
  describe command again, 2006-01-26)
• which in turn references this 5c7d3c9507f (Allow building of RPM from
  interim snapshot., 2006-01-16)

This project doesn’t use this Kernel-style trailer.[1] Also not the commit reference style. (It uses `git show -s --pretty=reference <commit>`)

It’s more common to place it inside the body of the message. Like a replacement for the preceding “historical reasons”.

† 1: It’s almost only trailers which attribute people. (I am having a hard
    time coming up with exceptions; you can find at least 
    one Cherry-picked-from)

> Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>