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Re: bug: build from tarball uses git-describe

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 14, 2007, 19:30 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702142028230.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ok, then let's do this.  Our tarballs do have version file, and if the 
> upperlevel Makefile wants to set a different version it can drop 
> 'version' file before descending into us.

Okay. But I started hacking git by getting it, compiling it, doing "git init", a "git fetch origin", "git read-tree HEAD" and "git update-index --refresh". In that case, .git is there, but also the file "version".

But that's too obscure a case as to care about, so I am okay with your patch.

Ciao, Dscho

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