On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 03:38:23AM -0700, Dan Li wrote: > 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. > + Briefly read the script, I don't see what the correlation between git reset with LOCALVERSION thing is. Also, does the exact state of git repository required for reproducible builds? Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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