subject:"Re\: git checkout"

Re: git checkout

2010-01-26 Thread D Herring

Bruno Haible wrote: But first, has anyone analyzed why git-version-gen failed at all in [3]? The message fatal: cannot describe 'a2889ee464562b0b91c1bd6dd00d846ce4b022a0' indicates some setup or build script problem on Hydra's side. git-describe usually prints that message when it can't find

Re: git checkout

2010-01-26 Thread Bruno Haible

[Original problem report in [1].] > See on the hydra build: Hydra creates its tarballs not directly from the git checkout, but by running in particular "make dist" in the git checkout.[2] This has caused problems also in other packages. Specifically in autoco

Re: git checkout

2010-01-26 Thread Eric Blake

[adding bug-gnulib, as owner of the git-version-gen script] According to Paolo Bonzini on 1/26/2010 3:24 AM: > On 01/24/2010 10:01 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> Somehow a git (tarball?[1]) checkout of Autoconf sometimes manages to >> get a version of UNKNOWN into its .version file. Presumably tha

Re: git checkout

2010-01-26 Thread Paolo Bonzini

On 01/24/2010 10:01 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Somehow a git (tarball?[1]) checkout of Autoconf sometimes manages to get a version of UNKNOWN into its .version file. Presumably that is on systems without git installed (or listed as dependency). See on the hydra build: