From 6e8557cf73fa152131ebe45e561e8a2f56c447e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:46:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] get back our old version string

---
 src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl b/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl
index eee0f928c..83348558f 100644
--- a/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl
+++ b/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ elsif (-d '.git' || -f '.git') { # Git
     # v1-4-abcdef-dirty
     # is 4 commits after tag 'v1' with short hash abcdef
     # with uncommitted modifications
-    my $result = `git describe --always --tags --dirty --abbrev=20`;
+    my $result = `git describe --always --tags --dirty --long`;
     chomp $result;
     print "== git describe:\n$result\n==\n" if $opt_v;
     if (!$? && $result ne '') {