[openib-general] Initial Plan for userspace git trees

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

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> >> - Use git-describe to get symbolic version name. This finds the closest tag,
> >>   so you'll get vofed-1.1 if that's what you checked out.
> >>   Useful for e.g. opensm Makefile.
> >>     
> >
> > What do you mean? To use this in Makefile as "version generator"
> > (instead of osm_svn_revision.h stuff)?
>
> This is a good point.
> I think we need a standardized method for each of our libs be providing 
> a "version" function.
> We then should be able to automatically update that version with both 
> the "lib version" and the git version (last commit date?).

IMO lib versioning is not something you should do automatically - versions there
have meaning for backward compatibility etc.

For e.g. opensm, git-describe probably does exectly what you want already.

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