[ipxe-devel] Feature request: version numbers

[Floris Bos / Maxnet]

On 07/23/2012 07:26 AM, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
>
>> And if not, would it be possible to at least get the Git release
>> number displayed on startup?
> Git release number is already displayed on startup in latest git releases.
> Just I can't access it from script and it's not incrementing, so it can't
> be used to test which version is newer/older.

Ah, wasn't aware of that, because all I was getting is "v1.0.0+"

Seems to be caused by rom-o-matic copying the "src" directory to a 
temporary directory under /tmp before building.
The .git information is not in "src" but a level higher, and therefore 
does not get copied.

==
/tmp/MDCROMmAj9R2# git describe --always --abbrev=1
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
==


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos