From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:38:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] Try the built-in version string before git-describe
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0805210738v40b25d54j65e70b3ef2745987@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080520213844.13410.32757.stgit@yoghurt>

On 20/05/2008, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> Try to get the built-in version string first, and fall back to git
>  describe if there is no built-in string, instead of the other way
>  around. This makes computing the version string much cheaper in the
>  common case (whenever StGit is not run directly from a git-controlled
>  tree).
>
>  In order for this to work when StGit _is_ run directly from a
>  git-controlled tree, setup.py has to delete the builtin version file
>  once the installation process is over. (Otherwise, the StGit version
>  in a git-controlled tree would be frozen at whatever value it happened
>  to have when setup.py was last run.)

OK, I thought it was only the ordering change. With this change to
setup.py, I'm OK with the patch. I'll merge your tree tonight.

-- 
Catalin