From: Sebastian Siewior <lkml@ml.breakpoint.cc>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 22:18:08 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: setlocalversion: do not describe if there is nothing to describe
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~58^2
X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=56b2f0706d82535fd8d85503f2dcc0be40c8e55d;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

setlocalversion: do not describe if there is nothing to describe

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Just a note that when you run git-describe, you should probably quiten it.
>
> fatal: cannot describe 'bd7364a0fd5a4a2878fe4a224be1b142a4e6698e'
>
> This happens when tags are not present, which can happen if Linus's tree
> is sent upwards again, IOW:
>
>  machine1$  git-clone torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>  machine1$  git push elsewhere master
>
>  machine2$  git-clone elsewhere:/linux
>  machine2$  git-describe HEAD
>  fatal: cannot describe that

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Acked-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 1c1bdaf7348..83b75126c9f 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ cd "${1:-.}" || usage
 if head=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then
 	# Do we have an untagged version?
 	if git name-rev --tags HEAD | grep -E '^HEAD[[:space:]]+(.*~[0-9]*|undefined)$' > /dev/null; then
-	        git describe | awk -F- '{printf("-%05d-%s", $(NF-1),$(NF))}'
+		if tag=`git describe 2>/dev/null`; then
+			echo $tag | awk -F- '{printf("-%05d-%s", $(NF-1),$(NF))}'
+		fi
 	fi
 
 	# Are there uncommitted changes?