[PATCH] Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git describe command

From: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>
Date: Dec 30, 2005, 16:23 UTC
Message-ID: <dp3mtp$rfm$1@sea.gmane.org>

I think it is probably a bug that "git non_existent_command" returns its error message to stdout without an error, where "git-non_existent_command" behaves differently and does return an error.

Older versions of git did not implement "git describe" and GIT-VERSION-GEN produces an empty version string if run on a system with such a git installed. The consequence is that "make rpm" fails.

This patch fixes GIT-VERSION-GEN so that it works in the absence of a working "git describe"

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diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 196402c..845b9dc 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

  GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE

-VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) || VN=v1.0.GIT
+VN=$(git-describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) || VN=v1.0.GIT
  VN=$(expr "$VN" : v'\(.*\)')
  if test -r $GVF
  then

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Signed-off-by: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>