[oe] [RFH] Support for automatic package versining using git describe

[Mike (mwester)]

Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:43:04 -0300 Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> Please drop this hook since it is our internal workaround for the lack
>> of the AUTOREV in our recipes.
> 
> Sure.  Attached is the new patch.

I don't know the context for these patches, so please forgive me if I
should be reading the sources instead of asking here (perhaps my
question makes no sense at all):

What does this code do if I make a tarball snapshot of the
"openembedded" directory structure, excluding the .git directory, and
attempt to build from that?

-Mike (mwester)