Makefile: fix the "built from commit" code
authorJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:35:23 +0000 (21:35 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:04:10 +0000 (09:04 -0700)
In ed32b788c06 (version --build-options: report commit, too, if
possible, 2017-12-15), we introduced code to let `git version
--build-options` report the current commit from which the binaries were
built, if any.

To prevent erroneous commits from being reported (e.g. when unpacking
Git's source code from a .tar.gz file into a subdirectory of a different
Git project, as e.g. git_osx_installer does), we painstakingly set
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES when trying to determine the current commit.

Except that we got the quoting wrong, and that variable therefore does
not have the desired effect.

The issue is that the $(shell) is resolved before the output is stuffed
into the command-line with -DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT, and therefore is
*not* inside quotes. And thus backslashing the quotes is wrong, as the
quote gets literally inserted into the CEILING_DIRECTORIES variable.

Let's fix that quoting, and while at it, also suppress the unhelpful
message

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

that gets printed to stderr if no current commit could be determined,
and might scare the occasional developer who simply tries to build Git
from scratch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Makefile
index 2ce70d205d9284ee2f0454ad66dcca73f90e1dc8..afed47f68d1fc31dccc5d56de164aa5d4f29426a 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1903,8 +1903,9 @@ version.sp version.s version.o: GIT-VERSION-FILE GIT-USER-AGENT
 version.sp version.s version.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
        '-DGIT_VERSION="$(GIT_VERSION)"' \
        '-DGIT_USER_AGENT=$(GIT_USER_AGENT_CQ_SQ)' \
-       '-DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="$(shell GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=\"$(CURDIR)/..\" \
-               git rev-parse -q --verify HEAD || :)"'
+       '-DGIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="$(shell \
+               GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$(CURDIR)/.." \
+               git rev-parse -q --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null)"'
 
 $(BUILT_INS): git$X
        $(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(RM) $@ && \