# HG changeset patch
# User Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>
# Date 1382999125 25200
# Node ID 9b560a24dd4eabcd504d64a7f040eca4b312dd7c
# Parent  2cfba752ab3d8960001600f96dbb26bd391ecf42
maint.mk: restore functionality removed by recent change

Sunday's change, v0.0-8062-g6b24f60, may have appeared correct from
the context of a shallow-cloned gnulib repository: "git describe"
would fail in such a directory.  However, that change made it so
the reported gnulib revision no longer includes the version number
or a commit count, even when run from a full clone.
* top/maint.mk (gnulib-version): Use the full "git describe"
output when possible, e.g., the form above, rather than the
abbreviated, no-tag, no-commit-count string, and fall back to
using a 10-byte hash, rather than the default minimal-length
hash prefix, since while the minimal-length one may be fine today,
it is likely not to be unique for very long.

diff -r 2cfba752ab3d -r 9b560a24dd4e ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog	Mon Oct 28 14:44:04 2013 -0600
+++ b/ChangeLog	Mon Oct 28 15:25:25 2013 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+2013-10-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>
+
+	maint.mk: restore functionality removed by recent change...
+	Sunday's change, v0.0-8062-g6b24f60, may have appeared correct from
+	the context of a shallow-cloned gnulib repository: "git describe"
+	would fail in such a directory.  However, that change made it so
+	the reported gnulib revision no longer includes the version number
+	or a commit count, even when run from a full clone.
+	* top/maint.mk (gnulib-version): Use the full "git describe"
+	output when possible, e.g., the form above, rather than the
+	abbreviated, no-tag, no-commit-count string, and fall back to
+	using a 10-byte hash, rather than the default minimal-length
+	hash prefix, since while the minimal-length one may be fine today,
+	it is likely not to be unique for very long.
+
 2013-10-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>
 
 	maint.mk: fix "release" target to build _version
diff -r 2cfba752ab3d -r 9b560a24dd4e top/maint.mk
--- a/top/maint.mk	Mon Oct 28 14:44:04 2013 -0600
+++ b/top/maint.mk	Mon Oct 28 15:25:25 2013 -0700
@@ -1283,7 +1283,8 @@
 rel-files = $(DIST_ARCHIVES)
 
 gnulib_dir ?= $(srcdir)/gnulib
-gnulib-version = $$(cd $(gnulib_dir) && git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+gnulib-version = $$(cd $(gnulib_dir)				\
+                    && { git describe || git rev-parse --short=10 HEAD; } )
 bootstrap-tools ?= autoconf,automake,gnulib
 
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