GIT-VERSION-GEN: restrict tags used

Restrict the tags used to generate the version string to those that
begin with "v", since git's tags for git-core (ie. excluding git-gui)
are all of the form "vX.Y...".

This is to avoid using private tags by the user in a clone of the git
code repository, which may break certain machinery (eg. Makefile, gitk).

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 0ad39484eceab30360e1f46c6057a873ca2c26f1..82fd72652b6d35837b8786005024263ac61630dd 100755 (executable)
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ if test -f version
 then
        VN=$(cat version) || VN="$DEF_VER"
 elif test -d .git -o -f .git &&
-       VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
+       VN=$(git describe --match "v[0-9]*" --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
        case "$VN" in
        *$LF*) (exit 1) ;;
        v[0-9]*)