Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Offer more information in `git version --build-options`'s output
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
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- Dec 15, 2017, 18:03 UTC
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On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes: >> no commit associated with this build > > I find this output somewhat klunky for machine parsing (and it is > inconsistent with the style used for "sizeof-long", which hints that > these are "<token> <colon> <value>" lines where whitespaces are > avoided in a <token>), but hopefully this is primarily for human > consumption and scrypts that are trying to find a specific piece of > information would know how to use 'grep', so the inconsistency does > not make much of a difference in practice anyway.
Simply omitting that line from the output of --build-options would also be an option if the commit can not be determined...