On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:10:18PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:01:17 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > A small formatting fix, and add a few lines describing the origin of
> > > the git-based "localversion" string for the kernel version.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > > index f977086..4d5aef6 100644
> > > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > > @@ -80,13 +80,19 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
> > > default y
> > > help
> > > This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
> > > - release tree by looking for git tags that
> > > - belong to the current top of tree revision.
> > > + release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
> > > + top of tree revision.
> > >
> > > A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
> > > - if a git based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
> > > + if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
> > > appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
> > > - set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
> > > + set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. (The actual string is the first eight
> > > + characters produced by running the command:
> > > +
> > > + $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
> > > +
> > > + which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion", in case
> > > + you were interested.)
> >
> > Please omit ", in case you were interested".
>
> ok, will resubmit.
>
> > >
> > > Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
> > > the git or cogito tools to be installed.
> >
> > How can this be the case since a 'git' command is used, according to
> > your new documentation?
>
> i have no idea why that last part says that -- that's not part of my
> addition, it's the original text. in fact, there's nothing about
> scripts/setlocalversion that seems to require perl, so that last part
> is *doubly* odd.
In the past setlocalversion was a perl script.
Sam
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