Christopher Li wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Ramsay > Jones<ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> $ git checkout master >> $ git describe >> 0.4.1-99-g37f041a > > If works well if you are following the official branch. If you are working > on your own, you might have some private tag. Then that will mess up > the "git describe". My tag might not even look like a version number. > True, but I don't see that as a problem. :) >> However, you would not want sparse (the library) to force *all* >> applications built with the library to handle the --version option >> by printing the sparse (the program) version string and exiting! > > That is what YOUR current patch do, no? > Exactly. ;-) I was describing what is wrong with the patch and how I intended to fix it. Indeed, I have fixed it. However, since there is no interest in it, I'll refrain from spaming the list. ;-) ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html