From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> In ed32b788c06 (version --build-options: report commit, too, if possible, 2017-12-15), we introduced code to let `git version --build-options` report the current commit from which the binaries were built, if any. To prevent erroneous commits from being reported (e.g. when unpacking Git's source code from a .tar.gz file into a subdirectory of a different Git project, as e.g. git_osx_installer does), we painstakingly set GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES when trying to determine the current commit. Except that we got the quoting wrong, and that variable therefore does not have the desired effect. Let's fix that quoting, and while at it, also suppress the unhelpful message fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git that gets printed to stderr if no current commit could be determined, and might scare the occasional developer who simply tries to build Git from scratch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- Makefile | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 0cb6590f2..c70f823a0 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -2021,8 +2021,9 @@ version.sp version.s version.o: GIT-VERSION-FILE GIT-USER-AGENT version.sp version.s version.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \ '-DGIT_VERSION="$(GIT_VERSION)"' \ '-DGIT_USER_AGENT=$(GIT_USER_AGENT_CQ_SQ)' \ - '-DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="$(shell GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=\"$(CURDIR)/..\" \ - git rev-parse -q --verify HEAD || :)"' + '-DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="$(shell \ + GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$(CURDIR)/.." \ + git rev-parse -q --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null)"' $(BUILT_INS): git$X $(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(RM) $@ && \ -- gitgitgadget
