Re: linux fatal: cannot describe <sha1>

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Wednesday 2008-07-02 00:18, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>* Sam Ravnborg | 2008-07-01 22:09:51 [+0200]:
>
>>> Just a note that when you run git-describe, you should probably quiten it.
>>> 
>>> fatal: cannot describe 'bd7364a0fd5a4a2878fe4a224be1b142a4e6698e'
>>> 
>>
>>Hi Jan.
>>
>>Any specific reason why you sent it to me?

You are the buildsystem maintainer :)

>Maybe he was thinking about this (and didn't know that you were moving):

I only took note of that briefly. Should there have been someone
else to send it to?

>---
>scripts: don't desribe if there is nothing to describe
>diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
>index 1c1bdaf..83b7512 100755
>--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
>+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
>@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ cd "${1:-.}" || usage
> if head=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then
> 	# Do we have an untagged version?
> 	if git name-rev --tags HEAD | grep -E '^HEAD[[:space:]]+(.*~[0-9]*|undefined)$' > /dev/null; then
>-	        git describe | awk -F- '{printf("-%05d-%s", $(NF-1),$(NF))}'
>+		if tag=`git describe 2>/dev/null`; then
>+			echo $tag | awk -F- '{printf("-%05d-%s", $(NF-1),$(NF))}'
>+		fi
> 	fi
> 
> 	# Are there uncommitted changes?

looks ok i'd say.
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