From 21af9f11f9c28a02290f274e1e0840b014dd22d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ren=C3=A9=20Kijewski?= <rene.kijewski@fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:38:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make: do not spam error messages on shallow clones

> `--always`: Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback.
---
 Makefile.base | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.base b/Makefile.base
index c26d16cbdb..ad46f5e7c7 100644
--- a/Makefile.base
+++ b/Makefile.base
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ endif
 OBJ = $(SRC:%.c=$(BINDIR)$(MODULE)/%.o)
 DEP = $(SRC:%.c=$(BINDIR)$(MODULE)/%.d)
 
-GIT_STRING := $(shell git describe --abbrev=4 --dirty=-`hostname`)
+GIT_STRING := $(shell git describe --always --abbrev=4 --dirty=-`hostname`)
 GIT_BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
 ifeq ($(strip $(GIT_BRANCH)),master)
 	GIT_VERSION = $(GIT_STRING)
-- 
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