Did you check here that this actually works? We have weird issues with our branches being migrated from SVN.
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Updated Branches: > refs/heads/master 88e3d1a51 -> 0706a84b8 > > > use git-describe in bootstrap > > ``git describe --always`` is superior to ``git log`` in this case. It > generates a more useful version tag. For example, it allows a developer > building packages from the source tree to track and package unreleased > changes in a way that makes sense to package managers. > > Using the --always flag reverts to the old behavior when no git tag is > resolvable from the current HEAD. > > > Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/repo > Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/commit/0706a84b > Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/tree/0706a84b > Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/diff/0706a84b > > Branch: refs/heads/master > Commit: 0706a84b84a2ca094c749af59642ae06bd0f6830 > Parents: 88e3d1a > Author: Randall Leeds <[email protected]> > Authored: Sat Nov 26 21:30:54 2011 -0800 > Committer: Randall Leeds <[email protected]> > Committed: Sat Nov 26 21:30:54 2011 -0800 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > bootstrap | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/blob/0706a84b/bootstrap > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap > index 1190280..4af3936 100755 > --- a/bootstrap > +++ b/bootstrap > @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ mkdir -p build-aux > > if test -z "$REVISION"; then > if test -d .git; then > - REVISION=`git log --pretty="format:%h" | head -1`-git > + REVISION=`git describe --always`-git > else > # default to svn > REVISION=`\`which svn\` info . 2> /dev/null | awk "/Revision:/{print > \\$2}"` > >
