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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 13:16:14 +0200
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] including the "git describe" output in the QEMU
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Hi,

has this been raised / considered before? To me at least it would be
extremely useful if QEMU binaries built from a git working directory
returned the output of "git describe" (+ possibly a hint about an
unclean working directory), when invoked with "-version".

Not volunteering for the implementation, and also not suggesting /
requesting that others implement it (everyone is busy with real stuff,
I'm sure); just asking if it's been considered.

Thanks!
Laszlo