[lttng-dev] [lttng-tools PATCH] Correct LTTng version

[Josh Stone]

On 03/12/2013 02:38 PM, David Goulet wrote:
> Yup that would be ideal actually!
> 
> Master is not 2.0 nor 2.1 so having something like
> "git-FIRST_8_BYTES_OF_HEAD_COMMIT" would be very useful.

You might like this script we use with systemtap:

http://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=blob;f=git_version.sh

That gives us a header which defines a git version string such as
"release-2.1-78-g3d0a328", in the style of "git describe".