Re: [patch] kbuild: Improve version string logic

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Subject: kbuild: Improve version string logic
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> It changes how CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO works, in the following trivial
> way:
> 
>  - if it is set, things work the way they always have, and you get a
>    extended kernel release like:
> 
> 	2.6.32-rc3+00052-g0eca52a-dirty
> 
>    ( with the difference that the extra version string is separated via
>      '+' not via '-'. This improves visibility when we have additional
>      changes over a vanilla tag. )
> 

s/changes/commits/, we'd have to look at the -dirty suffix for uncommited 
changes.

The '+' doesn't necessarily always mean there are additional changes since 
scripts/setlocalversion will return -00000-EXTRAVERSION when we're at a 
release.  So when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is enabled, this patch would, 
for example, create the version 2.6.32-rc3+00000-rc3.

Perhaps we should suppress setlocalversion's output if git describe 
doesn't have a 7-character trailing hash prefixed with 'g'?
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