From: Ralf Jung <post@ralfj.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:15:40 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Use 'git describe' to get current version number in checkVersions()
X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/mass-build.git/commitdiff_plain/1c97a041534e9aacaba12939729eb1ab3ea3d798

Use 'git describe' to get current version number in checkVersions()

The old method could not deal well with multiple tags for the same commit
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diff --git a/vcs.py b/vcs.py
index d6e2028..73ffb10 100644
--- a/vcs.py
+++ b/vcs.py
@@ -86,24 +86,18 @@ class Git:
 	def version(self):
 		repo = git.Repo(self.folder)
 		v = repo.git.describe()
-		return v[len(get_non_digit_prefix(v)):] # remove the letter prefix from v (so that it starts with a number)
+		return v[len(get_non_digit_prefix(v)):] # remove the non-digit prefix from v (so that it starts with a number)
 
 	def checkVersions(self):
-		self.update(mode =  MODE_FETCH)
+		self.update(mode = MODE_FETCH)
 		repo = git.Repo(self.folder)
-		# get tag name for current commit, if any
-		commit = repo.commit(self.commit)
-		commitTag = filter(lambda t: t.commit == commit, repo.tags)
-		if not commitTag:
-			print "Version is not a tag"
-			return
-		currentVersion = str(commitTag[0])
-		# get sorted list of tag names with the same letter prefix and higher version number
+		currentVersion = repo.git.describe()
+		# get sorted list of tag names with the same non-digit prefix and higher version number
 		tags = map(str, repo.tags)
 		tags = filter(lambda t: get_non_digit_prefix(t) == get_non_digit_prefix(currentVersion) and natural_sort_key(t) > natural_sort_key(currentVersion), tags)
 		if not tags: return
 		tags.sort(key = natural_sort_key)
-		print "Versions newer than "+self.commit+" available:"
+		print "Versions newer than "+currentVersion+" available:"
 		print tags
 
 # Fetch updates via SVN