[RFC/PATCH] Print git describe output into the log file.

[Dan Nicholson]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:25:54 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>
>> Run git describe on build and push the output into xorg-git-version.h. Then
>> print that out in the logfile.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
>> ---
>> Do we want something like this? Suggestions for less dodgy implementations
>> are welcome, but the current one passes distcheck.
>>
> If this goes in, I'd like a way to disable it so I don't get "unknown
> version" in all logs.  I already put the package version in the
> builderstring so the version info is there.  Maybe just print this if
> PRE_RELEASE?

One way to make that happen easily is to make the script just not
define XORG_GIT_VERSION when it can't get the describe output instead
of making the version "Unknown...". Then for a tarball, you'll just
get no string in the log that says "git version: ...". I have some
other comments on the implementation if this is something people want.

I think that as long as it doesn't show up in tarball builds, I'm all
for it. It will be a really nice to find out where people are at if
they're trying development builds.

--
Dan