[Dnsmasq-discuss] Snapshot archives downloaded from gitweb are not versioned properly

[Simon Kelley]

The current format is %d, which is

"ref names, like the --decorate option of git-log[1]"

according to git help log.

I'm not clear what the difference between that and %(describe) is. The 
substituted value is used subtly in get-version as part of the 
build-process, so we need to be a little careful about changing things.

When the build runs on a fully-fledged git repo, rather than a tar file 
extracted from one, get-version does run "git describe". This isn't the 
case during the automated build, however.


Simon.


On 12/09/2022 04:51, Johnny S. Lee via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> The contents of file VERSION from the tar.gz files of the latest 3 commits:
> 
> dnsmasq-c4b9bc6/VERSION: (HEAD -> master)
> dnsmasq-4447d48/VERSION: (tag: v2.87rc1, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
> dnsmasq-04cc2ae/VERSION:
> 
> Would it be better adding "%(describe)" to the format in file VERSION?
> 
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