At 18:10 -0600 14 Dec 2012, David Champion <d...@bikeshed.us> wrote:
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?
I hadn't realized that those weren't portable. I did the testing with
dash to try to avoid, bash-specific features but of course that supports
some non-standard features itself.
Updated version of that patch using sed instead follows.
---- 8< ------
Subject: [PATCH] version.sh: Get detailed version info from git
If not able to use mercurial to build a detailed version string, try
using git to do so.
---
version.sh | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
index 39709a0..35e5604 100644
--- a/version.sh
+++ b/version.sh
@@ -64,6 +64,29 @@ 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=`echo $version | sed -e s/-dirty//`
+ ;;
+ esac
+
+ commit=` echo $version|sed -e's/.*-//'`
+ version=` echo $version|sed -e's/-[^-]*$//'`
+
+ distance=`echo $version|sed -e's/.*-//'`
+ version=` echo $version|sed -e's/-[^-]*$//'`
+
+ version=` echo $version|sed -e's/^mutt-//' -e's/-rel$//' -e'y/-/./'`
+
+ 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
