[asdf-devel] *ASDF-REVISION*

[Gary King]

Hi Robert,

On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:

> Should I expect the *ASDF-REVISION* variable to work for me?  Right  
> now
> it's NIL.  Is the definition of *ASDF-REVISION* a holdover from the  
> CVS
> days, and no longer working, or is this YA case where there's  
> something
> about git that I'm missing?  Should I be doing something with the git
> pull that will get me a tags directory?
>

*asdf-revision* both works and doesn't work. The mechanism I found to  
fill in git related metavariables was `git archive`. This only files  
stuff in on the tarball and the linked version of asdf.lisp. The  
variables in the git repo that you get by cloning/pulling don't have  
the magic variables converted and so so *asdf-revision* isn't much  
help. In practice, this means that people who get ASDF via git  
directly don't get the revision number whereas people who get ASDF via  
the tarball or the source file do.

If there is a better way, I'm all eyes.

(this sounds rather gross, but maybe a post pull hook could grab that  
latest tag out of the repo and munge that into the source... ?)
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