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Re: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: Do not require tags to be annotated

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2013, 00:54 UTC
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On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> I am not sure what you mean by automated, but if you can tell your
> automation infrastructure that the way to build this Git software is
> to run "make" in it, shouldn't it be trivial to instead tell it to
> run something like this instead?
>
>         git describe --tags HEAD >version && make

Which is a pretty stupid option. 'git describe' does use tags by default anyway, what else is it supposed to do?

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Felipe Contreras
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  1. GIT-VERSION-GEN: Do not require tags to be annotatedSebastian Schuberth, Sep 6, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2013
  3. Felipe ContrerasSep 7, 2013
  4. Sebastian SchuberthSep 7, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2013
  6. Sebastian SchuberthSep 7, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2013
  8. Felipe ContrerasSep 9, 2013
  9. Sebastian SchuberthSep 10, 2013
  10. Felipe ContrerasSep 10, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2013
  12. Sebastian SchuberthSep 10, 2013
  13. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  14. Kyle J. McKaySep 6, 2013
  15. Sebastian SchuberthSep 7, 2013
  16. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013

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