[mythtv-users] git & wiki

[Udo van den Heuvel]

On 2010-12-08 17:13, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> On 2010-12-08 15:07, Ian Kent wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 21:57 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>>>>> E.g.: I still need to find out how to get the git commit number we're at
>>>>> to adjust the name of the mythtv rpms.
>>>>
>>>> git show HEAD | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'
>>
>> Hey, thanks!
> 
> No, ew, there are better ways. See below. :)
(...)
> 
> git describe | cut -d- -f 3

Even better!
But it doesn't always work:

[root at recorder mythweb.git]# pwd
/usr/src/mythweb.git
[root at recorder mythweb.git]# git describe | cut -d- -f 3
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
[root at recorder mythweb.git]# git show HEAD | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'
52cb8fb98f1aa209cfd2befa92a9cdd0b7841070

How come?

> git describe gives you a minimal hash that is guaranteed to be unique.
> If more than 8 characters are needed, it'll give 'em to you.

Aha. Hmm. The info is getting complete enough to change around the
svn-rsync-rpm-build to git-rsync-rpm-build...

Thanks,
Udo