From 11a7a4cdcd430ea565b6dbfe42a6c7e76c17158c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 23:36:11 +0200
Subject: configure: use a saner version string for git snapshots

This avoids using an oldish tag as base for the version string.

Reported-by: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fd69af2..f8c67be 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -360,7 +360,8 @@ AS_IF(
     [AS_CASE(
         [${PACKAGE_VERSION}],
         [git|*+git],
-        [rev_id="$( git describe --tags 2>/dev/null )"
+        [rev_id="$( git rev-parse --short HEAD )"
+         git diff-index --quiet HEAD || rev_id="${rev_id}-dirty"
          PACKAGE_VERSION="${PACKAGE_VERSION}+${rev_id:-unknown-$( date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S )}"
         ])])
 # Arrange to have no / in the directory name, no need to create an
-- 
cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6