Re: Fw: Aw: Re: git equivalent to pulling the most recent date from ChangeLog?

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

(accidentally hit "send" prematurely. Trying again.)


Bastian Mrkisch <bma...@we...> writes:

>         @echo "#ifndef GNUPLOT_TIMEBASE_H_INCLUDED" >$@t
>         @echo "#define GNUPLOT_TIMEBASE_H_INCLUDED" >>$@t
> -       @head -1 $< | sed -e 's,\(^[0-9-]* \).*$$,const char gnuplot_date[] = "\1";,' >>$@t
> +       @echo "const char gnuplot_date[] = \"`git log -1 --format=%ci | cut -b-11`\";" >>$@t
>         @echo "#endif /* GNUPLOT_TIMEBASE_H_INCLUDED */" >> $@t
>         @if cmp -s $@ $@t; then rm -f $@t; else mv $@t $@; fi

Presumably this will barf when building from a release tarball WITHOUT
the git metadata (i.e. what the distros do), right? Or is timestamp.h
not built in those cases?