Github user dch commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/302#issuecomment-115187190
Nice work!
Here's a nifty trick to get a git version, if this is a git repo, and
return true if not. One could tweak the `|| true` bit to return something else
of course.
```
git describe --dirty --abbrev=7 --tags --always --first-parent 2>/dev/null
|| true
```
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