From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268315AbUJURTO (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:19:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270746AbUJURQv (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:16:51 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:27290 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270692AbUJURKy (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:10:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:10:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Len Brown , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: Versioning of tree In-Reply-To: <4177E8A0.2090508@pobox.com> Message-ID: References: <1098254970.3223.6.camel@gaston> <1098256951.26595.4296.camel@d845pe> <4177E8A0.2090508@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > The nightly snapshots have been exporting this info since Day One, based > on your request ;-) Yes. But that doesn't help the people who actually use the native BK trees themselves, or the people who use the CVS exports. That was what Ben was complaining about. We already have the concept of "localversion*" files that get appended to the build. So the only thing that would be needed is some Makefile magic to create a "localversion-bk-version" file if the top-of-tree isn't tagged, and we'd get some unique ID for native BK users too. Linus