Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] Makefile: Derive "PKGVERSION" from "git describe" by default

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 06/01 15:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/06/2016 13:13, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > On 06/01/16 12:40, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >>   Hi,
> >>
> >>> +				git describe 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\n'; \
> >>> +				if ! git diff-index --quiet HEAD &>/dev/null; then \
> >>> +					printf -- '-dirty'; \
> >>> +				fi \
> >>
> >> /me suggests "git describe --dirty --match 'v*'"
> >>
> >> Saves the extra effort to check for a dirty tree manually.
> > 
> > We couldn't convince ourselves that support for "--dirty" is ubiquitous;
> > please see the sub-thread rooted at
> > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/414824/focus=414828>.
> > 
> >> Also greatly reduces the chance non-release tags are matched, so I don't
> >> get results like "pull-vga-20160523-1-236-g9fd5eb7".
> > 
> > Since what version is "--match" supported? ;)
> 
> git's own version history says 1.5.5.
> 
> Another small point is that some people put the whole home directory in
> git, so I would test for $(SRC_PATH)/.git instead of using "git
> status".  And no-git is unnecessary if the git part is included in
> parentheses.  This gives:
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index a4d7da0..412c2b8 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -173,16 +173,16 @@ qemu-version.h: FORCE
>  		if test -n "$(PKGVERSION)"; then \
>  			printf '"$(PKGVERSION)"\n'; \
>  		else \
> -			printf '" ('; \
> -			if ! git status &>/dev/null; then \
> -				printf "no-git"; \
> -			else \
> -				git describe 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\n'; \
> +			if test -d .git; then \
> +			        printf '" ('; \
> +				git describe --match 'v*' 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\n'; \
>  				if ! git diff-index --quiet HEAD &>/dev/null; then \
>  					printf -- '-dirty'; \
> -				fi \
> +				fi; \
> +			        printf ')"\n'; \
> +			else \
> +				printf '""\n'; \
>  			fi; \
> -			printf ')"\n'; \
>  		fi) > $@.tmp)
>  	$(call quiet-command, cmp --quiet $@ $@.tmp || mv $@.tmp $@)
>  
> 
> 
> Looks good?

Looks good except I'd use tabs everywhere. Can you fix when applying? :)

Fam