linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH,RFC 1/3] Change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION

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Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:55:34 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC 1/3] Change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO to use a git-describe-ish format

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:52:59PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Change the automatic local version to have the form -nnnnn-gSHA1SUMID,
> where 'nnnnn' is the number of commits since the last tag (i.e.,
> 2.6.21-rc7).  This makes it much more likely that the package names created
> for the kernel will look "newer" to a package manager.

Applied all three. Removed the dash in git describe to make in conformant
to versions of git without it.

	Sam
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