[ovirt-devel] VDSM fails 'autogen.sh' when shallow cloning - is that expected?

[Yaniv Kaul]

Probably fails because of:
git describe
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.



On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:

> Cloning VDSM with the following command:
> git clone -b master --depth 1 git://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm
>
> Which works, but then I can't run ./autogen.sh succesfully:
> mini at ykaul-mini:/tmp/github/vdsmshallow$ ./autogen.sh  |less
> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
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> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
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> I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish
> to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line.
> configure: error: package version not defined
>
> As the difference is 1:10 in data size and I only wish to work on the tip,
> this could be very useful to me.
> Any ideas?
>
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