From 8b3d37d3925fcec0abc0b8539724381c9e98c1c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@bnl.gov>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:19:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] genVersionHeader: work with git repo w/o tags

--always is necessary for (new) repositories w/o any tags.
--abbrev=20 to get more than the default 7 characters of the hash
---
 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 f078ad4f6..5851ea831 100644
--- a/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl
+++ b/src/tools/genVersionHeader.pl
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ if (!$vcs && -d "$opt_t/.git") { # Git
     # v1-4-abcdef-dirty
     # is 4 commits after tag 'v1' with short hash abcdef
     # with uncommited modifications
-    my $result = `git describe --tags --dirty`;
+    my $result = `git describe --always --tags --dirty --abbrev=20`;
     chomp $result;
     print "== git describe:\n$result\n==\n" if $opt_v;
     if (!$? && $result ne '') {