From fb69a88323eef661b6a9113ad7967138f4d78e9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shiv Shankar <shiv.shankar@gtnexus.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:53:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] from before it was mainstream

---
 GIT-VERSION-GEN | 22 ++--------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 655b490..09c9c04 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,30 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/sh

 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.8.0.GIT
+DEF_VER=v0.0.1.FROMBEFOREITWASMAINSTREAM

 LF='
 '

-# First see if there is a version file (included in release tarballs),
-# then try git-describe, then default.
-if test -f version
-then
-	VN=$(cat version) || VN="$DEF_VER"
-elif test -d ${GIT_DIR:-.git} -o -f .git &&
-	VN=$(git describe --match "v[0-9]*" --abbrev=7 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
-	case "$VN" in
-	*$LF*) (exit 1) ;;
-	v[0-9]*)
-		git update-index -q --refresh
-		test -z "$(git diff-index --name-only HEAD --)" ||
-		VN="$VN-dirty" ;;
-	esac
-then
-	VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/-/./g');
-else
-	VN="$DEF_VER"
-fi
+VN="$DEF_VER"

 VN=$(expr "$VN" : v*'\(.*\)')

--
2.8.1.339.g3ad15fd.dirty