Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'll post a new how-to separately, but you've prompted me to
>> write the following:
>
> Thanks!  I've updated the daily autobuilder to check out from git, seems
> to be working:
>
> http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gnulib/

Good!

> However, the revision isn't working any more so we'll have to fix
> do-autobuild.

For git-based projects, a good way to get the revision is via e.g.,

  git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD

coreutils' configure.ac now uses build-aux/git-version-gen
to set the package version number.  E.g., --version prints
this version string on one of my branches: 6.9-279-4f097

FYI, that depends on there being a signed git tag named 'v6.9'.


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