From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@keymile.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:58:52 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] km/common: add toolchain variable
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Hi Wolfgang,

On 12/19/2011 12:33 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <4EEF13D4.5020304@keymile.com> you wrote:
>>
>>> You can insert such information when you export the files from git,
>>> say by adding a line like:
>>>
>>> 	Last commit date: $Format:%H  %cD$
> ...
>> After reading the doc I don't know how it could be used in my usecase. Please
>> correct me if I am wrong, but this does only work in combination with the "git
>> archive" command. And I don't want to do an archive, I want to export/copy some
>> files out of the git tree into /tftpboot.
> 
> You could for example use the following command to copy this file into
> /tftpboot:
> 
> 	$ cd board/keymile/scripts
> 	$ git archive --format=tar HEAD README | \
> 	  ( cd /tftpboot ; tar -xpvf - )
> 

hm together with the needed git configuration IMO a bit to complicated for my
needs. To be honest I would like to keep this date information as it is.

If this is not acceptable then I will remove this string completely from the
u-boot tree and force the users to add a VERSION file to /tftpboot/scripts with:

$ git describe > /tftpboot/scripts/VERSION

or I keep it as a OOT patch. Just let me know.

Best regards
Holger