Re: please don't git describe in 0.12

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[email protected]> wrote Fri, Feb 29, 2008:
> Jonas Fonseca <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > git describe --match "elinks-*"
> >
> >        --match <pattern>
> >            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 that Git
> 1.5.4.3 is the latest release and it recognizes no such option.
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.5.4.3/git-describe.html

It was added in v1.5.4-rc1-21-g30ffa60.

> Given that most people building ELinks probably do not have a
> bleeding-edge Git installed (I currently don't), ELinks would
> have to do something sane with older Git versions too.  So just
> adding the --match option to src/Makefile is not enough.

Anyway, good old grep can probably also be used to pick a good candidate
if you can get git-describe to list several tags.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca