git-gui: Guess our version accurately as a subproject.
authorShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:05:10 +0000 (17:05 -0500)
committerShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:05:10 +0000 (17:05 -0500)
When we are included as a subproject, such as how git.git carries
us, we want to retain our own version number and not the version
number assigned by git.git's own tags. Consequently we need to
locate the correct tag which applies to our tree content and
its commit lineage.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
GIT-VERSION-GEN
index d3087489c584066c84b8c711a61d058f8ce24cfa..9fc80a656c19452fd90eb06207699b3bdd8de0a9 100755 (executable)
@@ -6,12 +6,45 @@ DEF_VER=0.5.GIT
 LF='
 '
 
-# First try git-describe, then see if there is a version file
-# (included in release tarballs), then default
-if VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
+tree_search ()
+{
+       head=$1
+       tree=$2
+       for p in $(git rev-list --parents --max-count=1 $head 2>/devnull)
+       do
+               test $tree = $(git rev-parse $p^{tree} 2>/dev/null) &&
+               vn=$(git describe --abbrev=4 $p 2>/dev/null) &&
+               case "$vn" in
+               gitgui-[0-9]*) echo $vn; break;;
+               esac
+       done
+}
+
+# We may be a subproject, so try looking for the merge
+# commit that supplied this directory content if we are
+# not at the toplevel.  We probably will always be the
+# second parent in the commit, but we shouldn't rely on
+# that fact.
+#
+# If we are at the toplevel or the merge assumption fails
+# try looking for a gitgui-* tag, or fallback onto the
+# distributed version file.
+
+if prefix="$(git rev-parse --show-prefix 2>/dev/null)"
+   test -n "$prefix" &&
+   head=$(git rev-list --max-count=1 HEAD -- . 2>/dev/null) &&
+   tree=$(git rev-parse --verify "HEAD:$prefix" 2>/dev/null) &&
+   VN=$(tree_search $head $tree)
+   case "$VN" in
+   gitgui-[0-9]*) : happy ;;
+   *) (exit 1) ;;
+   esac
+then
+       VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/^gitgui-//;s/-/./g');
+elif VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
    case "$VN" in
-   *$LF*) (exit 1) ;;
    gitgui-[0-9]*) : happy ;;
+   *) (exit 1) ;;
    esac
 then
        VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/^gitgui-//;s/-/./g');