From 3ba7b5cf2dc98ebe22291928b38a1e79b79f52e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junegunn Choi <junegunn.c@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:33:22 +0900
Subject: Make Makefile fail when git information is not available

---
 BUILD.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'BUILD.md')

diff --git a/BUILD.md b/BUILD.md
index dba8b22f..711228d3 100644
--- a/BUILD.md
+++ b/BUILD.md
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ make build
 make release
 ```
 
+> :warning: Makefile uses git commands to determine the version and the
+> revision information for `fzf --version`. So if you're building fzf from an
+> environment where its git information is not available, you have to manually
+> set `$FZF_VERSION` and `$FZF_REVISION`.
+>
+> e.g. `FZF_VERSION=0.24.0 FZF_REVISION=tarball make`
+
 Third-party libraries used
 --------------------------
 
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