By default, cut prints the entire line if the specified delimiter is not
present at all:
$ printf "foo bar" | cut -d' ' -f2
bar
$ printf "foobar" | cut -d' ' -f2
foobar
In setlocalversion, cut is presented with the output of 'hg id' which has
the format:
"<revision> <tags-if-any>"
If the current revision is not tagged, the output of 'hg id' does not
contain the delimiter (space), cut prints the entire string, and
setlocalversion thinks the version is the tag.
As setlocalversion does not print anything for tagged versions, there is no
output overall, and no correct indication of the mercurial revision.
Fix by passing the extra cut option '--only-delimited', which suppresses
output if no delimiter is found.
This problem likely went unnoticed for so long, because the tag 'tip' (i.e.
most recent revision of the branch) is treated specially: in this case the
mercurial revision _is_ printed, i.e. the situation is treated as
'untagged'.
The problem is only seen when you are _not_ at the most recent revision in
your branch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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