Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Offer more information in `git version --build-options`'s output

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>>       no commit associated with this build
>>
>> I find this output somewhat klunky for machine parsing (and it is
>> inconsistent with the style used for "sizeof-long", which hints that
>> these are "<token> <colon> <value>" lines where whitespaces are
>> avoided in a <token>), but hopefully this is primarily for human
>> consumption and scrypts that are trying to find a specific piece of
>> information would know how to use 'grep', so the inconsistency does
>> not make much of a difference in practice anyway.
>
> Simply omitting that line from the output of --build-options would
> also be an option if the commit can not be determined...