Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:57:31 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] v3 kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in SCM |
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:10:48AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 18:54 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > This patch appends the localversion string to the Linux kernel version. > > For example, in a git tree with uncommitted changes, the .config file > > might start as follows (but with leading hash marks): > > > > Automatically generated make config: don't edit > > Linux kernel version: 2.6.33-01836-g90a6501-dirty > > Mon Mar 1 17:05:59 2010 > > > > The "-01836-g90a6501-dirty" string is added by this patch. > > I really like this. This gives me the advantages of non-volatile build > info without the mess that makes if it's appended to file names/paths.
Glad you like it! ;-)
> -Mike > > Eventually someone will make bisect stop stepping on random kernels, and > generally making a mess, and life will be grand ;-)
Heck, I don't even know how bisect deals with merges. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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