linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix detectition of kernel git repository in setlocalversion script [take #2]

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Message-ID: <20140103134943.GB1676@sepie.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jan 2014 14:49:44 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix detectition of kernel git repository in
 setlocalversion script [take #2]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 04:34:29PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> setlocalversion script was testing the presence of .git directory in order to find out
> if git is used as SCM to track the current kernel project. However in some cases, .git
> is not a directory but can be a file: when the kernel is a git submodule part of a git
> super project for example.
> 
> This patch just fixes this by using 'git rev-parse --show-cdup' to check that the
> current directory is the kernel git topdir. This has the advantage to not test and rely
> on git internal infrastructure directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@...il.com>
> ---
>  scripts/setlocalversion | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to kbuild.git#kbuild.

Michal
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