linux-kernel - Re:Re: [PATCH] setlocalversion: fix error detectition of kernel git repository

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Message-ID: <72db5a75.262c.159c3f0d601.Coremail.xufwang@163.com>
Date:   Sun, 22 Jan 2017 10:10:57 +0800 (CST)
From:   xufeng <xufwang@....com>
To:     "Nico Schottelius" <nico-linuxsetlocalversion@...ottelius.org>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        wsa@...-dreams.de
Subject: Re:Re: [PATCH] setlocalversion: fix error detectition of kernel git
 repository


I'm sorry. My patch is error.
But I just want to get the git version  when we use git as SCM. No matter what .git directory where.
Thanks.


At 2017-01-22 04:54:54, "Nico Schottelius" <nico-linuxsetlocalversion@...ottelius.org> wrote:
>
>Hello Xufeng,
>
>why do you think redirecting *all* output to /dev/null is the right
>thing todo?
>
>And which problem does it exactly fix?
>
>Do you see that there is a difference between a "return value"
>(i.e. exit code) and the output (in this case stdout) of a program?
>
>Best,
>
>Nico
>
>xufeng <xufwang@....com> writes:
>
>> This patch fixed the error using 'git rev-parse --show-cdup' to check
>> that git is used as SCM to track the current directory. The return
>> value of this command is not null string when the .git directory is
>> not in kernel topdir.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xufeng Wang <xufwang@....com>
>> ---
>> scripts/setlocalversion | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
>> index 966dd39..7966e39 100755
>> --- a/scripts/setlocalversion
>> +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
>> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ scm_version()
>> fi
>>
>> # Check for git and a git repo.
>> -if test -z "$(git rev-parse --show-cdup 2>/dev/null)" &&
>> +if test -z "$(git rev-parse --show-cdup &>/dev/null)" &&
>> head=`git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then
>>
>> # If we are at a tagged commit (like "v2.6.30-rc6"), we ignore
>
>
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