[Buildroot] [PATCH] Restore .git directory in git package downloads

Jan Kundrát jan.kundrat at cesnet.cz
Wed Apr 19 13:01:01 UTC 2017


On středa 19. dubna 2017 6:15:53 CEST, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Is there anything missing for your use case?

This is largely hypothetical (I don't know if any of these are packaged for 
Buldroot), but I know several projects which try to look at the output of 
`git describe` to create a pretty version string at build time (such as 
"v0.7-220-g270d875").

With kind regards,
Jan



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