On 11/13/2011 03:18 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Yes, since that allows you the freedom to have more tags than just >> official releases. (I frequently have local tags to intermediate >> points, but only push official v1.0 style tags upstream, but since the >> command runs locally, git describe tries to use my local tags unless I >> use --match). > > Ok. But what is the harm if the --match is not done? You would get a > version string based on your own tags, but how does that matter?
If you are using incremental version strings (such as coreutils), by using git-version-gen as part of configure.ac, then every build you do locally would pick up on your local tags instead of the latest release tag, if you omit the --match. Yes, at release time, the latest tag is a release tag; but it is during the incremental development (such as posting candidate snapshots to the platform-testers list) where --match saves the day. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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