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Subject[PATCH] Documentation: changes.rst: add entry for git
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git is obviously used for development, directly and also
indirectly (via checkpatch, get_maintainer and other helper
scripts). But it is also invoked during the build to produce the
`uname -r` string.

It's useful to have some minimal git version one can expect people to
use. For now, set a somewhat conservative minimum of 1.8.0, which is
already more then ten years old.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
---
Documentation/process/changes.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 5561dae94f85..a82c619f4bb2 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Sphinx\ [#f1]_ 1.7 sphinx-build --version
cpio any cpio --version
GNU tar 1.28 tar --version
gtags (optional) 6.6.5 gtags --version
+git 1.8.0 git --version
====================== =============== ========================================

.. [#f1] Sphinx is needed only to build the Kernel documentation
@@ -189,6 +190,13 @@ The kernel build requires GNU GLOBAL version 6.6.5 or later to generate
tag files through ``make gtags``. This is due to its use of the gtags
``-C (--directory)`` flag.

+git
+---
+
+When building with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y, the build system uses
+git to produce a version string of the form
+6.4.6-00128-gd78b7f406397, which will be shown e.g. by running `uname -r`.
+
System utilities
****************

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2.37.2
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