13 Feb
2009
13 Feb
'09
12:07 a.m.
On Thursday 12 February 2009 17:30:24 Derek Ou wrote:
Our company uses svn for the source code management but I use git locally to track my development. When I build U-boot, it always complains about "fatal: cannot describe" the SHA1 # of HEAD. It goes back to line 16 of tools/setlocalversion.
I know that the error will go away when I tag my git HEAD. But what is the philosophy of this setlocalversion? Should I always tag the top commit of my git tree to maintain a clean U_BOOT_VERSION define?
it's to provide a simple way of getting the "current" git tree into the u-boot build. it doesnt always work. i recall fixing this once locally (as i was using git-svn for a u-boot svn repo), but i dont recall exactly how i did it. -mike