This is good to add support for, but note that the ${a#b} and ${a%b}
family of parameter expressions is nonportable. These are commonly
accepted bashisms that also work in zsh, but not in xpg4 shells.
Can you redo with seds, or something?
* On 13 Dec 2012, Aaron Schrab wrote:
> From: Aaron Schrab <[email protected]>
>
> If not able to use mercurial to build a detailed version string, try
> using git to do so.
> ---
> version.sh | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
> index 39709a0..54568ac 100644
> --- a/version.sh
> +++ b/version.sh
> @@ -64,6 +64,32 @@ if [ -d .hg ] && $HG >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> exit 0
> fi
>
> +# If in a git repo, and git is present use that to build detailed version
> string
> +if git rev-parse 2> /dev/null; then
> + version=`git describe --long --dirty --tags --match mutt-*-rel`
> +
> + case "$version" in
> + *-dirty)
> + dirty=+
> + version=${version%-dirty}
> + ;;
> + esac
> +
> + commit=${version##*-}
> + version=${version%-*}
> +
> + distance=${version##*-}
> + version=${version%-*}
> +
> + version=${version#mutt-}
> + version=${version%-rel}
> +
> + version=`echo $version | tr - .`
> +
> + echo "$version+$distance ($commit$dirty)"
> + exit 0
> +fi
> +
> # If nothing else worked, just cat the VERSION file;
> # it contains the latest release number.
> cat VERSION
> --
> 1.7.10.4
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