From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 20:27:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: don't hardcode HEAD in dist target
Message-ID: <xmqqd2er3vml.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140602193419.GA10198@spirit>

Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:

> I'd say it would make the consistency better, because now both look at
> what is checked out instead of at HEAD.

The version with your patch does not even look at HEAD; it looks at
whatever GIT_VERSION points at, which could be a very different
version that does not have anything to do with what is checked out
Can't GIT_VERSION come from ./version file, for example?