From 42a4957361cee5e3d5f8772daca0dddebc3162dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:13:06 +0200
Subject: Shorten the snapshot version string by removing the "g".

* build-aux/git-version-gen: Remove git-describe's "g" that would
always precede the abbreviated SHA1.  Suggestion from Dmitry V. Levin.
---
 build-aux/git-version-gen | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'build-aux')

diff --git a/build-aux/git-version-gen b/build-aux/git-version-gen
index 4a631116b..0fe5f3688 100755
--- a/build-aux/git-version-gen
+++ b/build-aux/git-version-gen
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ elif test -d .git \
 	 *) (exit 1) ;;
        esac
 then
-    v=`echo "$v" | sed 's/-/./g'`;
+    # Remove the "g" in git-describe's output string; change each - to a '.'
+    v=`echo "$v" | sed 's/\(.*\)-g/\1-/;s/-/./g'`;
 else
     v=$default_version
 fi
-- 
cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2