Hi, On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > apparently, the makefile blindly uses the output of > > git describe > > without checking whether there is a .git directory. Does this (totally untested) patch help? -- GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index 7a10b60..e6f89cb 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ LF=' # First try git-describe, then see if there is a version file # (included in release tarballs), then default -if VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) && +if test -d .git && VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) && case "$VN" in *$LF*) (exit 1) ;; v[0-9]*) : happy ;; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html