[x265] [PATCH 3 of 3] Make git X265_VERSION output the same as mercurial

[Ricardo Constantino]

On 14 June 2016 at 21:58, chen <chenm003 at 163.com> wrote:
>
> At 2016-06-15 04:49:32,"Ricardo Constantino" <wiiaboo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 14 June 2016 at 17:47, chen <chenm003 at 163.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My Git 1.7.9 can't support "--first-parent", so the X265_LATEST_TAG will
>>> be
>>> empty, it made the cmake build failed.
>>
>>That's already 4 years old.
>>The lack of --first-parent regarding LATEST_TAG can be fixed, but the
>>TAG_DISTANCE without it becomes too different from mercurial's. Dunno
>>what the devs prefer, empty tag distance or different from
>>mercurial's?
>
> without "--first-parent", the version will be big different, so we have to
> keep it (the mercurial work fine and no empty tag in there)
>
>  1.7+1094-g9eca097
>
> 1.9+211-99ce159380c7

I've sent a patch to avoid --first-parent with git describe. If it
works with git rev-list, then that should be it.