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

[Andreas Naumann]

Hi,

Am 19.04.2017 um 15:01 schrieb Jan Kundrát:
> 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").

For me, a custom kernel from private git repo being is one such project. 
Right now I have a hack to append the shortened contents of 
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION via .scmversion. But of course this 
is not the same/as nice as what git describe or setlocalversion reports.

regards,
Andreas

>
> With kind regards,
> Jan
>
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