id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
1884	don't cache .parrot_current_git_describe	coke		"When configuring parrot, the value for ""git-describe"" is taken from the cache file if it is present.

Here's a not-uncommon workflow that breaks in this case:

 * realclean 
 * build
 * git pull
 * configure # XXX This does not update the sha1-describe.
 * build

Unless there's a super compelling reason to cache this file, the value shouldn't even be stored on disk - it should go into the config hash and be calculated every time you run configure.

(similar arguments may cover other newly generated .parrot files.)"	bug	new	normal	2.11	configure	2.10.0	medium			dukeleto