tagged archive :: program version display GIT-NOTFOUND

[Eric Deveaud]

Hello

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when building tagged from tagged archive, all binaies display “GIT-NOTFOUND” as version.

see for example:

bigmess:MetaBAT/2.15 > ./src/metabat2

MetaBAT: Metagenome Binning based on Abundance and Tetranucleotide frequency (version 2:GIT-NOTFOUND; 2020-10-28T19:59:43)
by Don Kang ([e-mail]), Feng Li, Jeff Froula, Rob Egan, and Zhong Wang ([e-mail])

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bigmess:MetaBAT/2.15 > ./src/jgi_summarize_bam_contig_depths
jgi_summarize_bam_contig_depths GIT-NOTFOUND 2020-10-28T19:59:43
Usage: jgi_summarize_bam_contig_depths <options> sortedBam1 [ sortedBam2 ...]

it would be nice to have the version reflecting the tag

when working from tagged release archive there is no git context so git-watcher.cmake may need some modifications.

regards

Eric

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[Rob Egan]

That is a good suggestion. Presently the version number is entirely derived by the git environment of the source code directory (tags + hash), not by any file or variable located within the source code itself.

[Rob Egan]

Copied a better way of versioning from MetaBAT into the Issue110 branch and this should get incorporated when v2.18 gets released.