Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:54:37 -0700 | From | David Ahern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix version when building out of tree |
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On 11/5/13, 10:36 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > I think you could avoid the 'short' complication altogether by doing > something like this: > >> +elif test -f ../../PERF-VERSION-FILE >> +then >> + TAG=$(cut -d' ' -f3 ../../PERF-VERSION-FILE) > > That extracts 'TAG' as a true sha1 and makes GVF correct on out of tree > builds as well.
Certainly. I was trying to make PERF-VERSION-FILE readable as a standalone file -- a better version descriptor than HEAD file.
David
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