[Buildroot] [PATCH] Restore .git directory in git package downloads

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 19-04-17 16:39, Andreas Naumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 19.04.2017 um 15:01 schrieb Jan Kundrát:
>> On středa 19. dubna 2017 6:15:53 CEST, Baruch Siach wrote:
>>> Is there anything missing for your use case?
>>
>> This is largely hypothetical (I don't know if any of these are packaged
>> for Buldroot), but I know several projects which try to look at the
>> output of `git describe` to create a pretty version string at build time
>> (such as "v0.7-220-g270d875").
> 
> For me, a custom kernel from private git repo being is one such project. Right
> now I have a hack to append the shortened contents of
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION via .scmversion. But of course this is not
> the same/as nice as what git describe or setlocalversion reports.

 Cfr. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/732304/ and subsequent discussion.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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