Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: don't hardcode HEAD in dist target

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:27:14 -0700

Dennis Kaarsemaker <[email-masked]> writes:

> I'd say it would make the consistency better, because now both look at
> what is checked out instead of at HEAD.

The version with your patch does not even look at HEAD; it looks at
whatever GIT_VERSION points at, which could be a very different
version that does not have anything to do with what is checked out
Can't GIT_VERSION come from ./version file, for example?