On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:42:03PM +0100, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> Currently scripts/setlocalversion is a Perl script that tries to figure
> out the current git commit ID of a repo without using git. It also
> imports Digest::MD5 without using it and generally is too big for the
> small task it does. :] And it always reports a git ID, even when the
> HEAD is tagged -- this is a bug.
>
> This patch replaces it with a Bourne Shell script that uses git
> commands to do the same. I can't come up with a scenario where someone
> would use a git repo and refuse to install git core at the same time,
> so I think it's reasonable to assume git is available.
>
> The new script also reports uncommitted changes by adding -git_dirty to
> the version string. Obviously you can't see from that _what_ has been
> changed from the last commit, so it's more of a reminder that you
> forgot to commit something.
>
> The script is easily extensible: simply add a check for Mercurial (or
> whatever) below the git check.
>
> Note: the script doesn't print a newline char anymore. That's only
> because it was easier to implement it that way, not a feature (or bug).
> 'make kernelrelease' doesn't care.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <[email protected]>
Thanks Rene.
Applied with an:
Acked-by: Ryan Anderson <[email protected]>
Sam
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