[MacRuby-devel] MACRUBY_REVISION

[Vincent Isambart]

>>>>>> prabhaka$ macruby -e "p MACRUBY_REVISION"
>>>>>> "unknown revision"
>>>>
>>>> Where does your version of MacRuby come from? :-)
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure this was the latest nightly, installed using:
>>>
>>
>> Git will require an extra Attribute to properly do version  
>> substitution. See the section on "export-subst" in the Pro Git  
>> book: http://progit.org/book/ch7-2.html
>
> This used to work before when we were using Git by default (albeit a  
> different repository). Vincent probably knows what's going wrong  
> here :)

It works on git:
% macruby -e "p MACRUBY_REVISION"
"git commit 35e069811a44e9346b00cfbcccedc24ae7cce48f"

I'm not using export-subst, but when their is a .svn directory I'm  
calling "svn info" and if there is a .git directory I'm reading .git/ 
HEAD. "unknown revision" should only appear if there is neither a .svn  
nor a .git directory. I haven't looked at the scripts that build the  
nightlies but does it do a svn export or something similar? If that's  
the case, could we switch to a normal checkout?