Felipe Contreras wrote: > If we are not in a git repository `git describe` will fail anyway. The parent directory may be a git repository though. The current code ensures that we're running `git describe` in the proper repository. If we drop this, aren't we breaking things for someone building a git tarball which is in a subdirectory of a git repository? > Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN > index 34f561752b..cd94a7902e 100755 > --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN > +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ describe () { > if test -f version > then > VN=$(cat version) > -elif test -d "${GIT_DIR:-.git}" -o -f .git && describe > +elif describe > then > VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/-/./g') > fi -- Todd