Re: [PATCH] scripts/setlocalversion: also consider annotated tags of the form vx.y.z-${file_localversion}

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 8:20 PM Rasmus Villemoes
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit 6ab7e1f95e96 ("setlocalversion: use only the correct release
> tag for git-describe") was absolutely correct to limit which annotated
> tags would be used to compute the -01234-gabcdef suffix. Otherwise, if
> some random annotated tag exists closer to HEAD than the vX.Y.Z one,
> the commit count would be too low.
>
> However, since the version string always includes the
> ${file_localversion} part, now the problem is that the count can be
> too high. For example, building an 6.4.6-rt8 kernel with a few patches
> on top, I currently get
>
> $ make -s kernelrelease
> 6.4.6-rt8-00128-gd78b7f406397
>
> But those 128 commits include the 100 commits that are in
> v6.4.6..v6.4.6-rt8, so this is somewhat misleading.
>
> Amend the logic so that, in addition to the linux-next consideration,
> the script also looks for a tag corresponding to the 6.4.6-rt8 part of
> what will become the `uname -r` string. With this patch (so 29 patches
> on top of v6.4.6-rt8), one instead gets
>
> $ make -s kernelrelease
> 6.4.6-rt8-00029-gd533209291a2
>
> While there, note that the line
>
>   git describe --exact-match --match=$tag $tag 2>/dev/null
>
> obviously asks if $tag is an annotated tag, but it does not actually
> tell if the commit pointed to has any relation to HEAD. So remove both
> uses of --exact-match, and instead just ask if the description
> generated is identical to the tag we provided. Since we then already
> have the result of
>
>   git describe --match=$tag
>
> we also end up reducing the number of times we invoke "git describe".
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/setlocalversion | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)


Very nice. Just a nit.


Please initialize 'desc' to empty before ${desc} is referenced.

   desc=




Thank you.







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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada