Hi, I've build by 'accident' and stable kernel inside a git repo and noticed an strange bug.
setlocalversion will append a git revision to the kernel even is not an git one. to reproduce create some dir and cd in there: git init git config user.email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" git config user.name "blah" touch a b c git add * git commit -a git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2 7e671bce0cdc4ace727794dc79d5b426551ae5b8 now get any kernel tarball from kernel.org , unpack and build it with make V=1 --($:/work/crazy/bug/linux-2.6.24-rc2)-- LC_ALL=C; ls -d .git /usr/bin/ls: cannot access .git: No such file or directory ( we are not git ) ... --($:/work/crazy/bug/linux-2.6.24-rc2)-- make V=1 rm -f include/config/kernel.release echo 2.6.24-rc2-g7e671bce > include/config/kernel.release <-- buggy ... Possible fix is to add and check before : # Check for git and a git repo. if head=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then which actually is missing the 'git' check ;) if [ -d ".git" ]; then if head=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then ... fi or some git magic command I don't know yet =) Regards, Gabriel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/