On 27/08/2015:02:29:57 PM, Dave Young wrote: > Pratyush, rethink about it, it is still confused. Considering below case: > > git clone kexec-tools; > bootstrap and build, the version and date is the current git version and current date > after some time, git pull, upstream bumps to new version > run make again, build/sbin/kexec --version will still show the old date along with new version OK, got it.. May be we can take this patch and then it will be good to take Geoff's following patch. http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=0b18e1d9311e21d2a2f1392607eade138b9aefe7 With this patch we get something like this: $ ./build/sbin/kexec -v kexec version: 15.05.14.11.29-g4f6d8ec17529 kexec-tools 2.0.10.git released 27 August 2015 So, we have Date, Time and git shaid as well. ~Pratyush
