$NetBSD: patch-dd,v 1.1 2010/02/02 12:39:14 jmcneill Exp $

--- git-version-gen.orig	2010-02-02 06:54:03.000000000 -0500
+++ git-version-gen	2010-02-02 06:55:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -74,76 +74,10 @@ case $# in
 esac
 
 tarball_version_file=$1
-nl='
-'
-
-# First see if there is a tarball-only version file.
-# then try "git describe", then default.
-if test -f $tarball_version_file
-then
-    v=`cat $tarball_version_file` || exit 1
-    case $v in
-	*$nl*) v= ;; # reject multi-line output
-	[0-9]*) ;;
-	*) v= ;;
-    esac
-    test -z "$v" \
-	&& echo "$0: WARNING: $tarball_version_file seems to be damaged" 1>&2
-fi
-
-if test -n "$v"
-then
-    : # use $v
-elif test -d .git \
-    && v=`git describe --abbrev=4 --match='v*' HEAD 2>/dev/null \
-	  || git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null` \
-    && case $v in
-	 v[0-9]*) ;;
-	 *) (exit 1) ;;
-       esac
-then
-    # Is this a new git that lists number of commits since the last
-    # tag or the previous older version that did not?
-    #   Newer: v6.10-77-g0f8faeb
-    #   Older: v6.10-g0f8faeb
-#    case $v in
-#	*-*-*) : git describe is okay three part flavor ;;
-#	*-*)
-#	    : git describe is older two part flavor
-#	    # Recreate the number of commits and rewrite such that the
-#	    # result is the same as if we were using the newer version
-#	    # of git describe.
-#	    vtag=`echo "$v" | sed 's/-.*//'`
-#	    numcommits=`git rev-list "$vtag"..HEAD | wc -l`
-#	    v=`echo "$v" | sed "s/\(.*\)-\(.*\)/\1-$numcommits-\2/"`;
-#	    ;;
-#    esac
-
-    # Change the first '-' to a '.', so version-comparing tools work properly.
-    # Remove the "g" in git describe's output string, to save a byte.
-#    v=`echo "$v" | sed 's/-/./;s/\(.*\)-g/\1-/'`;
-    :
-else
-    v=UNKNOWN
-fi
-
-v=`echo "$v" |sed 's/^v//'`
-
-# Don't declare a version "dirty" merely because a time stamp has changed.
-git status > /dev/null 2>&1
-
-dirty=`sh -c 'git diff-index --name-only HEAD' 2>/dev/null` || dirty=
-case "$dirty" in
-    '') ;;
-    *) # Append the suffix only if there isn't one already.
-	case $v in
-	  *-dirty) ;;
-	  *) v="$v-dirty" ;;
-	esac ;;
-esac
+v=`cat ${tarball_version_file}`
 
 # Omit the trailing newline, so that m4_esyscmd can use the result directly.
-echo "$v" | tr -d '\012'
+echo "${v}" | tr -d '\012'
 
 # Local variables:
 # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)