> The manpage for cut says it will return all lines without the delimiter
> unless -s is specified.
>
> When I backed up my mecurial tree to generate modules, I found that the
> scm part of localversion was turning up blank.
>
> Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> Cc: "Michał Górny" <gentoo@mgorny.alt.pl>
>
> ---
> This version is against linux next-20100721. The diff against 35-rc
> would be shifted left one tab stop and have different line numbers, should
> this be sent to stable.
>
> Resend without 8-bit characters (maintainers name) in header
> Added
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org which get-maintainer did not
>
> diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
> index a7b9f76..872312f 100755
> --- a/scripts/setlocalversion
> +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ scm_version()
>
> # Check for mercurial and a mercurial repo.
> if hgid=`hg id 2>/dev/null`; then
> - tag=`printf '%s' "$hgid" | cut -d' ' -f2`
> + tag=`printf '%s' "$hgid" | cut -s -d' ' -f2`
>
> # Do we have an untagged version?
> if [ -z "$tag" -o "$tag" = tip ]; then
