Re: git gc seems to break --symbolic-full-name

24.07.2017 07:02, Jacob Keller пишет:

generally, I'd suggest using "git describe" to output a version based
on tag, and as part of your build system set that in some sort of
--version output of some kind.

I am not sure I understand that suggestion.
I can use 'git describe' (and that seems to be
what linux kernel does too), but I don't see
how can I get away without a temporary file,
maually comparing current 'git describe' with
the one stored, and updating that file in case
of a mismatch.
Could you please clarify? Maybe I am missing
some makefile trick which you assume I am
aware about. :)