On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 7:19 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 11:07:10AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > > git is obviously used for development, directly and also > > indirectly (via checkpatch, get_maintainer and other helper > > scripts). But it is also invoked during the build to produce the > > `uname -r` string. > > > > It's useful to have some minimal git version one can expect people to > > use. For now, set a somewhat conservative minimum of 1.8.0, which is > > already more then ten years old. > > > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Documentation/process/changes.rst | 8 ++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst > > index 5561dae94f85..a82c619f4bb2 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst > > +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst > > @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 1.7 sphinx-build --version > > cpio any cpio --version > > GNU tar 1.28 tar --version > > gtags (optional) 6.6.5 gtags --version > > +git 1.8.0 git --version > > ====================== =============== ======================================== > > > > .. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation > > @@ -189,6 +190,13 @@ The kernel build requires GNU GLOBAL version 6.6.5 or later to generate > > tag files through ``make gtags``. This is due to its use of the gtags > > ``-C (--directory)`` flag. > > > > +git > > +--- > > + > > +When building with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y, the build system uses > > +git to produce a version string of the form > > +6.4.6-00128-gd78b7f406397, which will be shown e.g. by running `uname -r`. > > Isn't this optional? If git is not installed it just will not use git > to determine the local version. Right. Without git, the suffix "-00128-gd78b7f406397" is not appended, but you can build the kernel. > > So you should put "(optional)" above on the list of tools. > > And also, don't pick a specific version like this unless it is that way > for a reason. Why not pick a newer one? Or the last one that the local > version script can handle properly? CentOS 7 (plans to retire in 2024) unfortunately uses a ten-year-old git version. In CentOS 7, $ git --version git version 1.8.3.1 Tagger: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 10 12:34:56 2013 -0700 Git 1.8.3.1 If we are allowed to abandon conservative distros, I prefer git >= 2.14.0 That supports 'git status --no-optional-locks' -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
