I have now patched Git to hide my local tags from git describe.
I am intentionally not sending this to the git mailing list
because I'm not sure I can satisfy their Signed-Off-By
requirements right away. The "Modified on" comments are for
GPLv2 clause 2. a).
Add describe.ignoretags config variab
Jonas Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, let's just change to not use git describe, given that we already
> have the "tagged version info" from configure.in it doesn't have a lot
> of benefits apart from looking a little more friendly compared to 40 hex
> digits.
OK. I'll cherry-pick th
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, Feb 29, 2008:
> Jonas Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It was added in v1.5.4-rc1-21-g30ffa60.
>
> Kalle???Astalo:~/src/MIRROR/git 2$ git describe --contains
> v1.5.4-rc1-21-g30ffa60
> undefined
>
> So, that commit is not in any rele
Jonas Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It was added in v1.5.4-rc1-21-g30ffa60.
KalleāAstalo:~/src/MIRROR/git 2$ git remote update
[...]
* [new tag] v1.5.4.2 -> v1.5.4.2
* [new tag] v1.5.4.3 -> v1.5.4.3
KalleāAstalo:~/src/MIRROR/git 2$ git describe --contains v1.5.4-rc1-
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, Feb 29, 2008:
> Jonas Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > git describe --match "elinks-*"
> >
> >--match
> >Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to
> > avoid
> >leaking private tags m
Jonas Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> git describe --match "elinks-*"
>
>--match
>Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
>leaking private tags made from the repository).
Now, which versions of Git support that? It seems to me th
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, Feb 29, 2008:
> I think the real solution to this would be for Git to define
> a way for .git/config to _exclude_ tags from git describe.
> Then I could upgrade to the required version and set the option,
> and ELinks would not have to care about
In ELinks 0.11.3.GIT, there is:
commit 36730c3c8389e0f31248b9fab0a0cb16b5562f1e
Author: Jonas Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue Jan 22 13:21:29 2008 +0100
Use git tools instead of cogito for getting the build ID
The build ID now includes both last tagged version, commit generation
