[ipxe-devel] show git version (was: Re: [resending] truncate menu title)

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Fri Jul 20 17:17:39 UTC 2012


On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 10:20:03 Christian Hesse wrote:
> This brings a new idea to my mind - could be useful to have the git version
> printed when booting.
> I broke the line in main.c as it was longer than 80 characters and did not
> fit the terminal width.
> 
> Feed free to apply and/or modify to your needs.

Implemented a very similar patch:

  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/348ec33

I tried to minimise the amount of screen space consumed by the version 
information since it's essentially useful only for diagnostics, and isn't 
interesting to most users.

Thanks!

Michael



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