[PATCH v2 1/1] Makefile: fix the "built from commit" code

["Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>]

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

In ed32b788c06 (version --build-options: report commit, too, if
possible, 2017-12-15), we introduced code to let `git version
--build-options` report the current commit from which the binaries were
built, if any.

To prevent erroneous commits from being reported (e.g. when unpacking
Git's source code from a .tar.gz file into a subdirectory of a different
Git project, as e.g. git_osx_installer does), we painstakingly set
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES when trying to determine the current commit.

Except that we got the quoting wrong, and that variable therefore does
not have the desired effect.

The issue is that the $(shell) is resolved before the output is stuffed
into the command-line with -DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT, and therefore is
*not* inside quotes. And thus backslashing the quotes is wrong, as the
quote gets literally inserted into the CEILING_DIRECTORIES variable.

Let's fix that quoting, and while at it, also suppress the unhelpful
message

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

that gets printed to stderr if no current commit could be determined,
and might scare the occasional developer who simply tries to build Git
from scratch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 Makefile | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0cb6590f2..c70f823a0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2021,8 +2021,9 @@ version.sp version.s version.o: GIT-VERSION-FILE GIT-USER-AGENT
 version.sp version.s version.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 	'-DGIT_VERSION="$(GIT_VERSION)"' \
 	'-DGIT_USER_AGENT=$(GIT_USER_AGENT_CQ_SQ)' \
-	'-DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="$(shell GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=\"$(CURDIR)/..\" \
-		git rev-parse -q --verify HEAD || :)"'
+	'-DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="$(shell \
+		GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$(CURDIR)/.." \
+		git rev-parse -q --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null)"'
 
 $(BUILT_INS): git$X
 	$(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(RM) $@ && \
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