Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: VPATH build issues.

2012-07-16 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 16 juil. 2012 à 15:50, Eric Blake a écrit : > I prefer --srcdir, if only because we already switched from CVS to git, > and might in the future switch from git to $shiny_new_vcs. Tying the > VCS name to the option means one more place to swap in that theoretical > future. OK. Installed as f

Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: VPATH build issues.

2012-07-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/15/2012 11:56 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Akim Demaille wrote: > >> Le 15 juil. 2012 à 16:48, Akim Demaille a écrit : >> >>> This patch should help people who, like me, sometimes build >>> from /tmp for instance, while the sources are in /home. >> >>> + --git-dir=DIR set the path to the Git

Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: VPATH build issues.

2012-07-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Akim Demaille wrote: > Le 15 juil. 2012 à 16:48, Akim Demaille a écrit : > >> This patch should help people who, like me, sometimes build >> from /tmp for instance, while the sources are in /home. > >> + --git-dir=DIR set the path to the Git repository. > > Actually, I hesitated between --git-di

Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: VPATH build issues.

2012-07-15 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 15 juil. 2012 à 16:48, Akim Demaille a écrit : > This patch should help people who, like me, sometimes build > from /tmp for instance, while the sources are in /home. > + --git-dir=DIR set the path to the Git repository. Actually, I hesitated between --git-dir and --srcdir. Whatever you p