v2: Address Eric's comments: "echo -n" -> "printf". "-unclean" -> "-dirty".
Makefile happened to be in my working set because of the docker test work, so I went ahead to try this nice feature last evening before going to bed. My apologies if we have duplicated work. Please review, especially please comment on the redundant version string: $ qemu-img --version qemu-img version 2.6.50-v2.6.0-603-g684a494, Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fabrice Bellard Fam Zheng (2): Makefile: Add a "FORCE" target Makefile: Derive "PKGVERSION" from "git describe" by default Makefile | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- linux-user/main.c | 1 + qemu-img.c | 1 + qmp.c | 1 + scripts/create_config | 4 ---- vl.c | 1 + 6 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- 2.8.2