Re: gitattributes export-subst and software versioning

> Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> writes:
>
>>> And replacing the flags with a commit slab doesn't seem to be enough,
>>> either -- I get good results lots of commits, but for some git log with
>>> the new placeholder would just show some nonsensical output, as it
>>> seems to get the depth calculation wrong for them somehow.
>>
>> You mean git describe <commit> produces wrong results for those?
>
> Running "describe" as an external command, like the patch you are
> responding to does, would not produce any wrong result, but Réne's
> point is that it would be very involved to turn "describe" into a
> function that can be called as if it is a library function without
> disrupting the operation of "log" that is running in the same
> address space, and the change he tried had some weird bugs to get
> the computation wrong.