linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in git tree

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Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:22:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zippel@...ux-m68k.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in git
 tree

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> Uses "git log" to print the hash.

Please don't use "git log" for something like this.

Sure, it works, but it's kind of silly to say "I want a log, except I want 
only a single entry, and btw, I don't actually even want the log entry for 
that single entry at all, just the hash".

It boils down to "I want a log, except with none of the log part". It 
should make you go "Do I really want a log"?

If you really want the hash, maybe just using "git rev-parse HEAD" would 
do it.

However, in this case I think _any_ of those would be wrong. Wouldn't it 
make sense to use the same thing that we already compute for 'uname' 
(scripts/setlocalversion)? Especially as that one already knows how to 
handle other SCM's too (ie the whole hg/svn parts).

That script also ends up using a nicer format, ie it uses "git describe" 
to give a better idea of where it all is.

				Linus
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