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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 15, 2017, 17:45 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqind7rik1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1513294410.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> - when no commit can be determined, it now says
>
> 	no commit associated with this build
>   instead of
>
> 	built from commit: (unknown)

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.

Queued.  Thanks.