[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Avoid generation failure when .git/ directory is missing

[Gilles Sabourin]

Le lundi 22 août 2011 21:11:02, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> Le lundi 22 août 2011 21:52:53 Gilles Sabourin, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I recently tried to extract vlc sources, and I have made a source tarball
> > without .git repository subdirectory. vlc compilation have stopped shortly
> > when invoking git --git-dir="$(top_srcdir)/.git/" command in src/Makefile.
> > I tried the alternative to keep .git repository into source tarball, but
> > now the source rpm file weights up to 190 MB. This patch try to bring a
> > solution to this problem for packagers when 1.2 official release will be
> > out.
> 
> I don't see the problem. The code already checks for git-describe failures.
> 
> 
Right. Forget it. First time, I have forgotten to provide a 'revision.txt' in source tarball.
Sorry for disturbing.

Regards,
Gilles