[U-Boot] git setlocalversion

[Mike Frysinger]

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
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