[U-Boot] [PATCH] km/common: add toolchain variable

[Holger Brunck]

Hi Wolfgang,

On 12/19/2011 09:57 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <4EEEF0D3.5040302 at keymile.com> you wrote:
>>
>>>> +Last change: 24.11.2011
>>>
>>> Does this really make any sense?  Which date are you recording here/
>>> When you (think) you last edited the file? When you applied the patch
>>> to your local tree? When you submitted it for mainline? When it
>>> actually got applied?
>>
>> What I want to record is to track the version of the scripts and this makes
>> sense for me. In the end the scripts are copied into /tftpboot on each
>> developers machine and is therefore not under git control. It is an easy
>> indication wether the scripts are uptodate or not, without starting a diff tool
>> and compare them with the latest git tree. Inside the git tree the information
>> is useless, I agree.
> 
> You can insert such information when you export the files from git,
> say by adding a line like:
> 
> 	Last commit date: $Format:%H  %cD$
> 
> That would IMO make much more sense.
> 
> See what we do with "snapshot.commit" in U-Boot [see also the entry
> in .git/info/attributes].
> 

After reading the doc I don't know how it could be used in my usecase. Please
correct me if I am wrong, but this does only work in combination with the "git
archive" command. And I don't want to do an archive, I want to export/copy some
files out of the git tree into /tftpboot.

Best regards
Holger