[postgis-devel] Change all stable branch versions to have git hash?

[Christoph Berg]

Re: rmrodriguez at carto.com 2020-01-08 <CAM6_UM5HHi3etGXED94hx+FJxdDxASAvxbBZz0CJYGGKE4CmyA at mail.gmail.com>
> > I can see why you want that, but please make it easy to disable it for
> packagers, or make it a static string.
> 
> Do you call anything to generate the source package while you still have git?

The source package build (sometimes) runs "make clean" first, but not
other code from the upstream sources.

> Maybe we can setup autogen.sh to call the generation script and change
> the generation script to do nothing if the file exists but git or the
> git directory doesn't. Would that work for you?

A file as trigger would work, or a configure switch.

Christoph