On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/25/2013 10:18 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> Just realized today the fact, that v3.11 reports just the tag and not >>> "tag-g<commit id>" Actually it's "<tag>-<number>-<commit id>", with <number> indicating the number of commits on top of the tag. >> >> You don't have CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y in your .config? >> >> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, >> > I do : > tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux $ ./linux --showconfig | grep AUTO > CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y > > pls look here : > > > $ ./linux --version > 3.11.0-00001-g65984ff-dirty > > versus > > $ git checkout HEAD~1 > Previous HEAD position was 65984ff... um: hostfs: Fix writeback > HEAD is now at 6e46645... Linux 3.11 > > $ make -j4 ARCH=um CC="ccache gcc" > ... > > $ ./linux --version > 3.11.0 If there are no additional commits on top of the tag, no number and commit ID are printed. I guess the rationale is that tags are global, hence present in all clones, so there's no need to tell what commit ID the tag corresponds to. > which correlates to > > $ git describe > v3.11 > > $ git describe --long > v3.11-0-g6e46645 This is not UML-specific. If you want to change this, you have to involve the kbuild people (CC added). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html