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Currently, the configure script is dumping a log message for the most recent commit into the middle of the output.
&> is non-standard for redirecting stdin and stderr. It is a short-hand copied from csh's >& by zsh and later bash. It is equivalent to >word 2>&1 which will also work in dash (/bin/sh on Debian) or other plain Bourne/POSIX shells.
I would perhaps question whether it might be better to check for the existence of a
.git
directory instead. Or for a git invocation that does less, perhaps rungit rev-parse --git-dir
, though that still needs the redirection. Or drop the autoconf test and handle things within the Makefile. Many projects use other forms such asgit describe --tags --long --abbrev=7
instead.