The status of git will affect the final compilation result, add it to the documentation of reproducible builds. Signed-off-by: Dan Li <ashimida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst index 071f0151a7a4..13397f38c358 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst @@ -119,6 +119,16 @@ To avoid this, you can make the vDSO different for different kernel versions by including an arbitrary string of "salt" in it. This is specified by the Kconfig symbol ``CONFIG_BUILD_SALT``. +Git +----------------------- + +Uncommitted changes or different commit ids in git can also lead +to different compilation results. For example, after executing +``git reset HEAD^``, even if the code is the same, the +``include/config/kernel.release`` generated during compilation +will be different, which will eventually lead to binary differences. +See ``scripts/setlocalversion`` for details. + .. _KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP: kbuild.html#kbuild-build-timestamp .. _KBUILD_BUILD_USER and KBUILD_BUILD_HOST: kbuild.html#kbuild-build-user-kbuild-build-host .. _KCFLAGS: kbuild.html#kcflags -- 2.17.1
