Since new repositories don't have tags in their git history yet, git-describe was failing. This fix uses always flag to return the hash of latest commit as a fallback to version number. Signed-off-by: Lucio Correia <luciojhc(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- Makefile.am | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 106a577..278bda1 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ uninstall-local: VERSION: @if test -d .git; then \ - git describe --abbrev=0 > $@; \ + git describe --abbrev=0 --always > $@; \ fi .PHONY: deb install-deb rpm fedora-rpm suse-rpm ChangeLog VERSION

On 15-12-2015 12:02, Aline Manera wrote: > > Hi Lucio, > > Even with this patch, I continue to get the "fatal: No names found, > cannot describe anything." error msg when building Wok. > > After a investigation, I noticed you added the --always flag only in > Makefile.am but the git-describe command is also used in > build-aux/pkg-version. > > alinefm@alinefm-ThinkPad-T440:~/wok$ git grep "git describe" > Makefile.am: git describe --abbrev=0 --always > $@; \ > build-aux/pkg-version: PKG_VERSION=`git describe --tags --match > "[0-9]*" || cat VERSION` > > If you update build-aux/pkg-version to use the --always flag all errors > are gone. > > Please, do it and resend the patch. Hi Aline, The pkg-version code is perfect. It falls back to the contents of VERSION file in the tree (despite the errors throwed). If I add --always flag to it, then the fallback will be the hash of HEAD commit and we can discard "|| cat VERSION" since git describe will always work. Is this really wanted just to avoid the error messages?

> > Regards, > Aline Manera > > > On 14/12/2015 15:37, Lucio Correia wrote: >> Since new repositories don't have tags in their git >> history yet, git-describe was failing. This fix uses >> always flag to return the hash of latest commit as a >> fallback to version number. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lucio Correia <luciojhc(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; >> --- >> Makefile.am | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am >> index 106a577..278bda1 100644 >> --- a/Makefile.am >> +++ b/Makefile.am >> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ uninstall-local: >> >> VERSION: >> @if test -d .git; then \ >> - git describe --abbrev=0 > $@; \ >> + git describe --abbrev=0 --always > $@; \ >> fi >> >> .PHONY: deb install-deb rpm fedora-rpm suse-rpm ChangeLog VERSION >