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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/makefile: Allow XEN_CHANGESET to be set
 externally
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:58 +0100
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On 17/05/2013 15:32, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>
>> Build systems based on tarballs rather than source code trees, such as
>> rpms/debs are unable to obtain changeset infomation.
>>
>> Allow XEN_CHANGESET to be optionally specified in the environment.
> Isnt that already possible with 'echo "$XEN_CHANGESET" > .scmversion'?
>
> Olaf

No - that results in the literal string "$XEN_CHANGESET"

I have however identified a bug with the way in which
xen/tools/scmversion deals with git.  Patch on the way.

~Andrew