On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 08:45:59PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Hi Junio, > > I recently noticed that: > > $ make >pout 2>&1 > $ ./git version > git version 2.11.0.286.g109e8a9 > $ git describe > v2.11.0-286-g109e8a99d > $ > > ... for non-release builds, the commit part of the version > string was still using an --abbrev=7. It seems like this kind of discussion ought to go in the commit message. :) That said, I think the right patch may be to just drop --abbrev entirely. Its use goes all the way back to 9b88fcef7 (Makefile: use git-describe to mark the git version., 2005-12-27), where it was --abbrev=4. That became --abbrev=7 in bf505158d (Git 1.7.10.1, 2012-05-01) without further comment. I think at that point it was a noop, as 7 should have been the default. And now we probably ought to drop it, so that we can use the auto-scaling default. -Peff