Re: [RFC PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: restrict tags used

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Tay Ray Chuan wrote:

quoted

since git's tags for git-core (ie. excluding git-gui)
are all of the form "vX.Y...".

git gui’s too, now.

Aggh --- sent early, there.  Here is what I meant to say.

Shawn, this helps avoid any stray (annotated) tags the user may have
made, following Tay’s example.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
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diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index b3f937e..d6a6601 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tree_search ()
 	for p in $(git rev-list --parents --max-count=1 $head 2>/dev/null)
 	do
 		test $tree = $(git rev-parse $p^{tree} 2>/dev/null) &&
-		vn=$(git describe --abbrev=4 $p 2>/dev/null) &&
+		vn=$(git describe --match=gitgui-[0-9]* --abbrev=4 $p 2>/dev/null) &&
 		case "$vn" in
 		gitgui-[0-9]*) echo $vn; break;;
 		esac

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