[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] version.sh: Always use latest tag for generated version number

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Timo Rothenpieler
<timo at rothenpieler.org> wrote:
>> Accessing a remote URL in the version script seems like a bad idea to me.
>
> I aggree, but I'm unsure how to propperly address the issue.
> The problem is that a plain "git pull" does not update tags,
> so if you have an older clone you allways updated via git pull, you end
> up with a version number based on an older tag.
>

I don't know what your Git is doing, but fetch and pull automatically
grab the appropriate tags for me.

- Hendrik