Re: [RFC] Documentation: kbuild: Add description of git for reproducible builds

[Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 03:38:23AM -0700, Dan Li wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
> index 071f0151a7a4..13397f38c358 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
> @@ -119,6 +119,16 @@ To avoid this, you can make the vDSO different for different
>  kernel versions by including an arbitrary string of "salt" in it.
>  This is specified by the Kconfig symbol ``CONFIG_BUILD_SALT``.
>  
> +Git
> +-----------------------
> +
> +Uncommitted changes or different commit ids in git can also lead
> +to different compilation results. For example, after executing
> +``git reset HEAD^``, even if the code is the same, the
> +``include/config/kernel.release`` generated during compilation
> +will be different, which will eventually lead to binary differences.
> +See ``scripts/setlocalversion`` for details.
> +

Briefly read the script, I don't see what the correlation between git
reset with LOCALVERSION thing is. Also, does the exact state of git
repository required for reproducible builds?

Thanks.

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