git-version-gen

#!/bin/sh
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v=`git describe --always --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null`
nl='
'

if test -n "$v"
then
    : # use $v
else
    v=UNKNOWN
fi

git update-index --refresh > /dev/null 2>&1
dirty=`sh -c 'git diff-index --name-only HEAD' 2>/dev/null` || dirty=
case "$dirty" in
    '') ;;
    *) # Append the suffix only if there isn't one already.
	case $v in
	  *-dirty) ;;
	  *) v="$v-dirty" ;;
	esac ;;
esac

echo "$v" | tr -d "$nl"