It turns out that that's simply the most useful information about the version
that was built.
For a git tree, it includes information about the closest release, number of
commits since the release, enough of the SHA1 to find the exact commit and
whether the tree was clean or dirty at build time.
For a build from tarball, it will include information of which release was built
and, when using a tarball from a not released commit (e.g. downloading
"master.tar.gz" from GitHub, not recommended!) it will include the -dev prefix
to indicate that was not an official release. (That's as good as we can get with
it.)
If additional information is required, it can be found with -version=raw.
Tested:
- Built from the git tree:
$ _output/go/bin/kubecfg -version
Kubernetes v0.2-29-gd916051e9db865
$ _output/go/bin/kubecfg -version=raw
version.Info{Major:"0", Minor:"2+", GitVersion:"v0.2-29-gd916051e9db865", GitCommit:"d916051e9db8650899acb9415a4e285e3e3a1f87", GitTreeState:"clean"}
- Built it from a dirty git tree:
$ { echo 'package version'; echo 'var X = 1'; } >pkg/version/sillyvar.go
$ make
$ _output/go/bin/kubecfg -version
Kubernetes v0.2-29-gd916051e9db865-dirty
$ _output/go/bin/kubecfg -version=raw
version.Info{Major:"0", Minor:"2+", GitVersion:"v0.2-29-gd916051e9db865-dirty", GitCommit:"d916051e9db8650899acb9415a4e285e3e3a1f87", GitTreeState:"dirty"}
- Tag it v0.3 and build it:
$ git tag -a v0.3 -m 'Release Kubernetes v0.3'
$ make
$ _output/go/bin/kubecfg -version
Kubernetes v0.3
$ _output/go/bin/kubecfg -version=raw
version.Info{Major:"0", Minor:"3", GitVersion:"v0.3", GitCommit:"d916051e9db8650899acb9415a4e285e3e3a1f87", GitTreeState:"clean"}
- Built it from a tarball:
$ wget -O kubernetes.tgz https://api.github.com/repos/filbranden/kubernetes/tarball/version_string1
$ tar xvf kubernetes.tgz
$ cd filbranden-kubernetes-*/
$ make
$ _output/go/bin/kubecfg -version
Kubernetes v0.2-dev
$ _output/go/bin/kubecfg -version=raw
version.Info{Major:"0", Minor:"2+", GitVersion:"v0.2-dev", GitCommit:"", GitTreeState:"not a git tree"}
- Built it with `go get`:
# I need to prefetch the tree to replace the official tree with mine:
$ mkdir -p ${TMPDIR}/gopath/src/github.com/
$ ln -sf filbranden ${TMPDIR}/gopath/src/github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform
# Now run `go get` to build kubecfg:
$ GOPATH=${TMPDIR}/gopath go get github.com/filbranden/kubernetes/cmd/kubecfg
# Check the version:
$ ${TMPDIR}/gopath/bin/kubecfg -version
Kubernetes v0.2-dev
$ ${TMPDIR}/gopath/bin/kubecfg -version=raw
version.Info{Major:"0", Minor:"2+", GitVersion:"v0.2-dev", GitCommit:"", GitTreeState:"not a git tree"}
Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
