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 1c1bdaf..83b7512 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
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?