From 8fab4007c83349e5dbaacca735ce698cf94bf8e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:51:20 +0200
Subject: Use the contents of RELEASE as version fallback instead of 'UNKNOWN'

This makes binaries produced by source tarballs identify themselves with
the version number of the corresponding release series, unless overriden
by a 'VERSION' file.
---
 version.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'version.sh')

diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
index 6ec2b2567e..7911e46166 100755
--- a/version.sh
+++ b/version.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ revision=$(cd "$1" && git describe --always 2> /dev/null)
 test "$revision" && revision=git-$revision
 
 # no revision number found
-test "$revision" || revision=UNKNOWN
+test "$revision" || revision=$(cd "$1" && cat RELEASE 2> /dev/null)
 
 # releases extract the version number from the VERSION file
 version=$(cd "$1" && cat VERSION 2> /dev/null)
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