On 05/08/2013 05:43 PM, Robert Richter wrote:
> From: Robert Richter <robert.rich...@calxeda.com>
>
> The tag of the perf version is wrongly determined, always the latest
> tag is taken regardless of the HEAD commit:
>
> $ perf --version
> perf version 3.9.rc8.gd7f5d3
> $ git describe d7f5d3
> v3.9-rc7-154-gd7f5d33
> $ head -n 4 Makefile
> VERSION = 3
> PATCHLEVEL = 9
> SUBLEVEL = 0
> EXTRAVERSION = -rc7
>
> In other cases no tag might be found.
>
> This patch fixes this.
>
> This new implementation handles also the case if there are no tags at
> all found in the git repo but there is a commit id.
I remember that Wang has posted a similar patch to fix this bug several
weeks ago:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/24/70
But have no response yet.
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