For inetutils (which uses git tags looking like 'inetutils-1_8') we noticed that git-version-gen hardcodes an expression when searching for particular tags:
&& v=`git describe --abbrev=4 --match='v*' HEAD 2>/dev/null \
I guess there are at least two questions:
1) Is it really required?
2) Any reason against making the expression 'v*' configurable?
/Simon
