[PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: allow overriding from Makefile

The RPM building procedure relied on being able to build from a
freshly untarred tarball, so there is no way "git describe"
could figure out from which commit it is building (there was no
HEAD).

This still does not allow you to build RPM binary package from
an untagged interim version because RPM does not like '-' in
version number, but that probably is a blessing.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

---

 * For 1.1.1; the binary in 1.1.0 RPM was affected with this bug.

 GIT-VERSION-GEN |   13 +++++++++----
 Makefile        |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 845b9dc..c878819 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN

@@ -2,8 +2,15 @@
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
 
-VN=$(git-describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) || VN=v1.0.GIT
-VN=$(expr "$VN" : v'\(.*\)')
+case "${VN+set}" in
+set)
+	;;
+*)
+	VN=$(git-describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) || VN=v1.0.GIT
+	VN=$(expr "$VN" : v'\(.*\)')
+	;;
+esac
+
 if test -r $GVF
 then
 	VC=$(sed -e 's/^GIT_VERSION = //' <$GVF)

@@ -14,5 +21,3 @@ test "$VN" = "$VC" || {
 	echo >&2 "GIT_VERSION = $VN"
 	echo "GIT_VERSION = $VN" >$GVF
 }
-
-

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c9c15b5..0bbb5b8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile

@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ dist: git.spec git-tar-tree
 	gzip -f -9 $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
 
 rpm: dist
-	$(RPMBUILD) -ta $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz
+	VN=$(GIT_VERSION) $(RPMBUILD) -ta $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz
 
 ### Cleaning rules
 

-- 
1.1.0

When producing a release tarball, include a "version" file, which 
GIT-VERSION-GEN can then use to do the right thing when building from a 
tarball.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>