On 12/05/2016 12:32 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:42:10 -0800 > Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> From 1586f1a25c41fb6036a24b47cfa58e3e818b8a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> >> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:27:15 -0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] repoman: Fix versioning system >> >> Repoman had been showing the portage version. Which was the same for >> the last release. Copy the live versions code from portage, Modify as >> needed to get the correct tag info. Add portage version to --version >> output. --- >> repoman/pym/repoman/__init__.py | 70 >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > For some reason, without the single quoting the match string, "git describe > --match portage-*" > would fail while "git describe --match repoman-*" would without the single > quotes. > > Anyway, I updated the repoman patch to single quote it.
Yeah, it definitely needs to be quoted, in order to prevent shell expansion. Apparently you had a file or directory patching portage-* in your working directory. -- Thanks, Zac