Added a sentence about reconfiguration of the cmake in version

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lets_not_store_versions_in_versioned_files.html b/lets_not_store_versions_in_versioned_files.html
index dc6479b..8872383 100644
--- a/lets_not_store_versions_in_versioned_files.html
+++ b/lets_not_store_versions_in_versioned_files.html
@@ -85,13 +85,15 @@ git_describe(VERSION)
 configure_file(version.cpp.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.cpp @ONLY)
 target_sources(version-print PRIVATE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.cpp)
 </pre>
-<p>Now, CMake does not support this out-of-box sadly, so you need to implement <code>git_describe</code> yourself or get
-an external module for it. There is one in
+<p>Now, CMake does not support this out-of-box sadly, so you need to implement <code>git_describe</code> (or similar)
+yourself or get an external module for it. There is one in
 <a href="https://github.com/rpavlik/cmake-modules/blob/main/GetGitRevisionDescription.cmake">Ryan A. Pavlik's
 repository</a> and I have implemented
 <a href="https://git.ignore.pl/starshatter/tree/cmake/modules/GitDescribe.cmake">one for Starshatter</a> at some point.
-They are rather easy and fun to write (altough there is a variety of edge cases), but it's still a bit shame that they
-are not part of the core CMake.
+They are rather easy and fun to write (although there is a variety of edge cases), but it's still a bit shame that they
+are not part of the core CMake. Now, note that one of these "edge cases" might be triggering the reconfiguration of the
+output file as <code>configure_file</code> is configuration-time action and changes to the output of the
+<code>git_describe</code> may or may not be properly detected. Be wary.
 <p>Alternatively, you can consider using a define to, well, define the version number. I use this approach with separate
 file that defines the variable for the sake of dependency checks and recompilation.
 <h2>Final Thoughts</h2>