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

[Nir Soffer]

Trying new clone:

$ time git clone https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm.git
Cloning into 'vdsm'...
remote: Counting objects: 47555, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (155/155), done.
remote: Total 47555 (delta 76), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 47400
Receiving objects: 100% (47555/47555), 27.16 MiB | 435.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (35297/35297), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

real 0m43.045s
user 0m3.650s
sys 0m0.555s

Are you sure you need to do a shallow clone?

Nir

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:
> Probably fails because of:
> git describe
> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
>
>
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> 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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