GIT-VERSION-GEN tries to derive the version that Git is being built from
via multiple different sources in the following order:
1. A file called "version" in the source tree's root directory, if it
exists.
2. The current commit in case Git is built from a Git repository.
3. Otherwise, we use a fallback version stored in a variable which is
bumped whenever a new Git version is getting tagged.
It used to be possible to override the version by overriding the
`GIT_VERSION` Makefile variable (e.g. `make GIT_VERSION=foo`). This
worked somewhat by chance, only: `GIT-VERSION-GEN` would write the
actual Git version into `GIT-VERSION-FILE`, not the overridden value,
but when including the file into our Makefile we would not override the
`GIT_VERSION` variable because it has already been set by the user. And
because our Makefile used the variable to propagate the version to our
build tools instead of using `GIT-VERSION-FILE` the resulting build
artifacts used the overridden version.
But that subtle mechanism broke with 4838deab65 (Makefile: refactor
GIT-VERSION-GEN to be reusable, 2024-12-06) and subsequent commits
because the version information is not propagated via the Makefile
variable anymore, but instead via the files that `GIT-VERSION-GEN`
started to write. And as the script never knew about the `GIT_VERSION`
environment variable in the first place it uses one of the values listed
above instead of the overridden value.
Fix this issue by making `GIT-VERSION-GEN` handle the case where
`GIT_VERSION` has been set via the environment.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx>
---
GIT-VERSION-GEN | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index de0e63bdfbac263884e2ea328cc2ef11ace7a238..787c6cfd04f0a43d0c1c8a6690185d26ccf2fc2f 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
# First see if there is a version file (included in release tarballs),
# then try git-describe, then default.
-if test -f "$SOURCE_DIR"/version
+if test -n "$GIT_VERSION"
+then
+ VN="$GIT_VERSION"
+elif test -f "$SOURCE_DIR"/version
then
VN=$(cat "$SOURCE_DIR"/version) || VN="$DEF_VER"
elif {
--
2.47.0
