From 9c187aa020cab67ccafba03b6907c3913573487c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Schanzenbach <mschanzenbach@posteo.de>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 15:35:08 +0200
Subject: -fallback to .version file outside of git

---
 contrib/get_version.sh | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/get_version.sh b/contrib/get_version.sh
index b57f3524f..35eed9f94 100755
--- a/contrib/get_version.sh
+++ b/contrib/get_version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-VERSION=$(git describe --tags)
-VERSION=${VERSION:1:${#VERSION}}
-echo $VERSION > .version
-echo  -n $VERSION
+# Gets the version number from git, or from the contents of .version
+VERSION=
+if test -f ".version"
+then
+  VERSION=$(cat .version)
+fi
+if test "x$VERSION" = "x" -a -d "./.git"
+then
+  VERSION=$(git describe --tags)
+  VERSION=${VERSION:1:${#VERSION}}
+  echo $VERSION > .version
+fi
+if test "x$VERSION" = "x"
+then
+  VERSION="unknown"
+fi
+echo -n "$VERSION"
-- 
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