Re: [PATCH] Support building development version without git

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:25:59 PDT Ethan A Merritt wrote:
 
> Henri:
> 
> Unfortunately your patch doesn't work for me. 
> 
> When I apply the patch and run
>   ./prepare
>   ./configure
>   make
> 
> I end up with an executable that reports it's version as 
> 
>         G N U P L O T
>         Version 5.5 patchlevel 0    last modified %cs
> 
> Was your change from "--format=%ci" to "--format=%cs" intentional,
> or was it just a typo? 
>   git --version
>   git version 2.21.3
>   git log -1 --format=%cs
>   %cs
>   git log -1 --format="%cs"
>   %cs
> 

Poking around online git docs, I find that %cs was introduced in 
version 2.25 (Jan 2020).  Too new for most distros!
I think we should stick to %ci for now.

	Ethan