Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > - VN=$(git -C "$SOURCE_DIR" describe --match "v[0-9]*" HEAD 2>/dev/null) && > -+ VN=$(git -C "$SOURCE_DIR" describe --match --dirty "v[0-9]*" 2>/dev/null) && > ++ VN=$(git -C "$SOURCE_DIR" describe --dirty --match="v[0-9]*" 2>/dev/null) && Ahh, you only said "found the issue" and it was building suspense ;-) It turns out that I wasn't affected while testing because my build infrastructure around "make" computes the version string by itself independently from what "make/GIT-VERSION-GEN" does, and stuffs it in the 'version' file, before running "make install". And that is why I didn't notice the breakage before Ramsay reported X-<. This fix looks obviously good. Thanks.
