Re: please don't git describe in 0.12

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 released version of Git.

fonseca@antimatter:~/src/git#next > echo OK
OK

> So then, the options appear to be:
> (a) Do not use git describe.  Instead show the full SHA-1.

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. I suppose you want to also remove the "-dirty" part.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca