From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:54:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: Do not require tags to be annotated
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2NUvm41+ysvj0hp5SvDtFZDt-4pGnh8hP4UT1kBRaUxQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsixgvci1.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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