Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'd say it would make the consistency better, because now both look at > what is checked out instead of at HEAD. The version with your patch does not even look at HEAD; it looks at whatever GIT_VERSION points at, which could be a very different version that does not have anything to do with what is checked out Can't GIT_VERSION come from ./version file, for example? -- 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