From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Suggestion: "git describe" pretty format
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:26:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7pq9wc7.fsf@grothesque.org> (raw)
Hi,
Many projects use 'git archive' to generate tarballs, especially because
this functionality is exposed through gitlab/github and the like. It's
also popular to base the version string on the output of 'git describe'
and its variants, for example 'git describe --first-parent --dirty'.
Now while it's possible to substitute various information into the
tarball using the export-subst machinery, there seems to be no way to
substitute the output of 'git describe' and its variants. Specifically,
when the commit being archived is untagged, there seems no way to
mention an ancestral tag in the way of 'git describe'.
It seems to me that adding a pretty format for git describe would be
very useful. Is there any technical reason that speaks against this?
Cheers,
Christoph
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