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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On Thu 2016-11-17 02:40:30 +0900, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> Trying again with no line breaks:
>>
> Please don't assume that the source code is built from a git repository.
> On debian, we build from the tarball, which is extracted from the git
> repo, and we have nothing for "git rev-parse" to draw from.

That's why my horrible one liner falls back on getting the version
from the parent directory... Not pretty.

>
> For the cost of one extra commit just before tagging, you could populate
> a version.txt file and this then becomes $(shell cat version.txt).

Yea most likely this is what will wind up happening...