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 came to the following solution which
looks quite simple (avoids comparing the
output of git describe):
git log -1 --format=%cd --date=rfc | xargs -I {} touch --date={} $TSTAMP

The care must be taken to put the timestamp
file as a pre-requisite of the .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME
target, and the build seems to work properly.
This still smells hackish, but this time I blame
make for an inability to specify the timestamps
explicitly. :)