FS#55057 : [gitlab] help errors trying to deduce own git revision at runtime

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FS#55057 - [gitlab] help errors trying to deduce own git revision at runtime

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Jonas Hahnfeld (hahnjo) - Sunday, 06 August 2017, 19:08 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 07 August 2017, 15:49 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	Packages
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

GitLab tries to deduce its own git revision. Upstream exepects that the complete git history is deployed which is not the case for this package - and saves a lot of disk space!
In 9.4 this problem has got bigger as /help will return server error 500 if the revision cannot be determined.

I'm attaching a PKGBUILD and its diff to extract the git revision from the downloaded tar ball and place it statically into config/initializers/2_app.rb. Please consider adding this to the binary packet.