From c435f06b308e52d7a5d2aad9eec98a1541832b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralph Giles <giles@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:05:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Pass --always to git describe.

This generates a useful version string even for --depth=1 checkouts.
The option was added in git v1.6.6.
---
 update_version       | 3 ++-
 win32/genversion.bat | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/update_version b/update_version
index a9999918d..6086136d7 100755
--- a/update_version
+++ b/update_version
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ fi
 # -dirty from files that have been touched but are not actually altered in the
 # working dir.
 GIT_VERSION=$(cd "$SRCDIR" && git status > /dev/null 2>&1 \
-                           && git describe --tags --match 'v*' --dirty 2> /dev/null)
+                           && git describe --tags --match 'v*' \
+                                           --always --dirty 2> /dev/null)
 GIT_VERSION=${GIT_VERSION#v}
 
 if [ -n "$GIT_VERSION" ]; then
diff --git a/win32/genversion.bat b/win32/genversion.bat
index 82885be71..b493cd470 100644
--- a/win32/genversion.bat
+++ b/win32/genversion.bat
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
 
-for /f %%v in ('git --git-dir="%~dp0..\.git" describe --tags --match "v*"') do set version=%%v
+for /f %%v in ('git --git-dir="%~dp0..\.git" describe --tags --match "v*" --always --dirty') do set version=%%v
 
 if not "%version%"=="" goto :gotversion
 
@@ -43,4 +43,4 @@ copy /y "%1_temp" "%1"
 
 :exit
 
-del "%1_temp"
\ No newline at end of file
+del "%1_temp"
-- 
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