[OpenWrt-Devel] Invalid revision range

[Chuanhong Guo]

Hi!
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:16 AM R. Diez via openwrt-devel
<openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org> wrote:
...
> If Git fails with a "fatal" error inside getver.sh, how come the build does not stop at that point?

Failed to calculate current revision isn't a "fatal error". As you can
see in getver.sh it falls back to reporting an "unknown" version and
the rest of the buildroot works just fine. A exact revision isn't a
must during the entire building procedure.

> For example: do we still need support for "version" and "hg" (Mercurial) in that script?

The version file is for people to easily set their custom version if
they want. (e.g. if a manufacturer wants to pack their own OpenWrt
buildroot for their customers, this feature is useful)
As for hg OpenWrt never officially uses this as a version controlling
tool. I think it's there so that it's convenient when people want to
use this in their custom branch. It was added 10 years ago in svn
r17432.

>
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>    rdiez
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