Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > 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.
Ok thanks for explaining. /Simon
