When somebody else extracts git tarball inside a larger project,
'git describe' would reported the version number of that upper
level project.
Sometimes, using the consistent versioning across subdirectories
of a larger project is useful, but it may not always be the
right thing to do.
This changes the script to check ./vertion file first, and then
fall back to "git describe". This way, by default, tarball
distribution will get our own version. If the upper level wants
to use consistent versioning across its subdirectories, its
Makefile can overwrite ./version file to force whatever version
number they want to give us before descending into us.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some distributions are using Git for part of their package
management system, but unpack Git's own source code for
delivery from the .tar.gz. This means that when we walk
up the directory tree with git-describe to locate a Git
repository, the repository we find is for the distribution
and *not* for git-gui. Consequently any tag we might find
there is bogus and does not apply to us.
In this case the version file should always exist and be
readable, as the packager is working from the released
.tar.gz sources. So we should always favor the version
file over anything git-describe guess for us.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is the start of the 0.6 series of git-gui. I'm calling it 0.6
(rather than any other value) as I already had a private tag on
one system based on 0.5, and that tag is quite a bit behind this
version.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When we are included as a subproject, such as how git.git carries
us, we want to retain our own version number and not the version
number assigned by git.git's own tags. Consequently we need to
locate the correct tag which applies to our tree content and
its commit lineage.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I've decided to use gitgui-0.5 as the format for tags in the
git-gui repository. The prefix of gitgui was chosen here to
make its namespace different from the namespace used by git
itself, allowing developers to pull both tag namespaces into
the same repository.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Now that the decision has been made to treat git-gui as a
subproject, rather than merging it directly into git, we
should use a different substitution for our version value
to avoid any possible confusion.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I'm stealing the exact logic used by core Git within its own Makefile to
setup the version number within scripts and executables. This way we
can be sure that the version number is always updated after a commit,
and that the version number also reflects when it is coming from a dirty
working directory (and is thus pretty worthless).
I've cleaned up some of the version display code in the about dialog too.
There were simply too many blank lines in the bottom section where we
showed the version data.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is not yet -rc1 where all new topics closes, but I think it
is getting pretty closer. I'd still want to merge updates to
fsck/prune to honor reflog entries before -rc1.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When an ancient "git" that does not understand "describe"
command is on the $PATH, "git describe" emitted a Usage message
without exiting non-zero status (which is a mistake we cannot
fix retroactively). Catch this case to make sure we do not try
using phoney multi-line string as a version number.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We ended up merging too many stuff after -rc2, so here is
another round of release candidate. Non bugfixes will be
queued to "next" from now on until a real 1.4.2 happens.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
GIT-VERSION-GEN can incorrectly return a default version of
"v1.3.GIT" because it tries to execute git commands using the
"git-cmd" format that expects all git commands to be in the $PATH.
Convert these to "git cmd" format so that a proper answer is
returned even when the git commands have been moved out of the
$PATH and into a $gitexecdir.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I've merged everything I think is ready for 1.3.0, so this is
the final round -- hopefully I can release this with minimum
last-minute fixup as v1.3.0 early next week.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Bunch of cleanups with a few notable enhancements since
1.3.0-rc1:
- revision traversal infrastructure is updated so that
existence of paths limiters and/or --max-age does not cause
it to call limit_list(). This helps the latency working with
the command quite a bit.
- comes with updated gitk.
One notable fix is to make sure that the IO is restarted upon
signal even on platforms whose default signal semantics is not
to do so. This is the fix for the notorious "clone is broken
since 1.2.2 on Solaris" problem.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
All of the things that were not in the "master" branch were
either cooked long enough in "next" without causing problems
(e.g. insanely fast rename detector or true built-in diff) or
isolated in a specific subsystem (e.g. tar-tree and svnimport).
So I am clearing the deck to prepare for a 1.3.0. Remaining
wrinkles, if any, will be ironed in the "master" branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now this is really a corner case, but if you have the git source
tree from somewhere other than the official tarball, you do not
have version file. And if git-describe does not work for you
(maybe you do not have git yet), we spilled an error message
from "cat version".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Commit 5c7d3c95 broke that by making the git-describe command part of
a pipe.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
By popular demand. If you build and install such binary RPMs,
the version numbering will lose monotonicity, so you may have to
later override downgrade warnings from your packaging manager,
but as long as you are aware of that and know how to deal with it,
there is no reason for us to forbid it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If we are building from a working tree with local modifications,
mark the version accordingly.
Deliberately uses '-' to prevent RPM from being built from such
a tree.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When producing a release tarball, include a "version" file, which
GIT-VERSION-GEN can then use to do the right thing when building from a
tarball.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I think it is probably a bug that "git non_existent_command"
returns its error message to stdout without an error, where
"git-non_existent_command" behaves differently and does return an
error.
Older versions of git did not implement "git describe" and
GIT-VERSION-GEN produces an empty version string if run on
a system with such a git installed. The consequence
is that "make rpm" fails.
This patch fixes GIT-VERSION-GEN so that it works in the
absence of a working "git describe"
Signed-off-by: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Note: with this commit, the GIT maintainer workflow must change.
GIT-VERSION-GEN is now the file to munge when the default
version needs to be changed, not Makefile. The tag needs to be
pushed into the repository to build the official tarball and
binary package beforehand.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio C Hamano