Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Offer more information in `git version --build-options`'s output

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>>       no commit associated with this build
>>
>> I find this output somewhat klunky for machine parsing (and it is
>> inconsistent with the style used for "sizeof-long", which hints that
>> these are "<token> <colon> <value>" lines where whitespaces are
>> avoided in a <token>), but hopefully this is primarily for human
>> consumption and scrypts that are trying to find a specific piece of
>> information would know how to use 'grep', so the inconsistency does
>> not make much of a difference in practice anyway.
>
> Simply omitting that line from the output of --build-options would
> also be an option if the commit can not be determined...

What we see in Dscho's patch is better than that option, though.  At
least, explicitly checking for "no commit associated" would tell you
if the version of Git is too old to have "built from commit:" line
or it is new enough but was built from a tarball.