Re: [PATCH 2/2] version --build-options: report commit, too, if possible

Hi Junio, On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > >> We need to be careful, though, to report when the current commit cannot be > >> determined, e.g. when building from a tarball without any associated Git > >> repository. > > > > This means

Re: [PATCH 2/2] version --build-options: report commit, too, if possible

Hi Jonathan, On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > In particular when local tags are used (or tags that are pushed to some > > fork) to build Git, it is very hard to figure out from which particular > > revision a particular Git executable was built. > >

Re: [PATCH 2/2] version --build-options: report commit, too, if possible

Jonathan Nieder writes: >> We need to be careful, though, to report when the current commit cannot be >> determined, e.g. when building from a tarball without any associated Git >> repository. > > This means that on Debian, it would always print > > built from commit:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] version --build-options: report commit, too, if possible

Hi, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > In particular when local tags are used (or tags that are pushed to some > fork) to build Git, it is very hard to figure out from which particular > revision a particular Git executable was built. Hm, can you say more about how this comes up in practice? I