Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git describe command again
Commit 5c7d3c95 broke that by making the git-describe command part of
a pipe.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index e3cd9fa..72201be 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@
# First try git-describe, then see if there is a version file
# (included in release tarballs), then default
-VN=$(git-describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/-/./g') ||
-VN=$(cat version) ||
-VN="$DEF_VER"
+if VN=$(git-describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null); then
+ VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/-/./g');
+else
+ VN=$(cat version) || VN="$DEF_VER"
+fi
VN=$(expr "$VN" : v*'\(.*\)')
