Re: [PATCH v2] setlocalversion: work around "git describe" performance

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 10:05:00PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Contrary to expectations, passing a single candidate tag to "git
> describe" is slower than not passing any --match options.
> 
>   $ time git describe --debug
>   ...
>   traversed 10619 commits
>   ...
>   v6.12-rc5-63-g0fc810ae3ae1
> 
>   real    0m0.169s
> 
>   $ time git describe --match=v6.12-rc5 --debug
>   ...
>   traversed 1310024 commits
>   v6.12-rc5-63-g0fc810ae3ae1
> 
>   real    0m1.281s

Works for me, thanks!

Tested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Josh