[CRIU] [PATCH 1/2] use `git describe` for GITID

Tycho Andersen tycho.andersen at canonical.com
Thu Apr 16 07:12:03 PDT 2015


On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:23:15PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 04/15/2015 08:46 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > `git describe` outputs slightly more useful git version info: v1.5-132-ga10f39e
> > 
> > The motivation for this is that we'd like to begin enforcing criu version in
> > liblxc, but we'd like to enable people to use the git version of 1.6 (since
> > that has stuff like --ext-mount-map auto), which reports its version as 1.5 but
> > doesn't tell us the patchlevel as git describe does.
> 
> I don't quite get it :) The 1.6 is not yet released. Do you plan to require
> criu ((1.6 or above) or (above 1.5))?

Right exactly. 1.6 || >= 1.5-123, so we can still use liblxc with
things until 1.6 is released :)

> > Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen at canonical.com>
> 
> I've applied that patch nonetheless, the new gitid is anyway more informative.

Thanks!

Tycho


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