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git_version.py uses 'git describe --exclude' which is not available in git 2.11.0

See original GitHub issue

system info

Image file:         ev3dev-stretch-ev3-generic-2018-12-14
Kernel version:     4.14.117-ev3dev-2.3.4-ev3
Brickman:           0.10.2
BogoMIPS:           148.88
Bluetooth:          
Board:              board0
BOARD_INFO_HW_REV=7
BOARD_INFO_MODEL=LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3
BOARD_INFO_ROM_REV=6
BOARD_INFO_SERIAL_NUM=0016533F8FD1
BOARD_INFO_TYPE=main

sudo python3 setup.py install fails due to

robot@ev3dev:~/ev3dev-lang-python$ sudo python3 setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 11, in <module>
    version=git_version(),
  File "/home/robot/ev3dev-lang-python/git_version.py", line 67, in git_version
    raise ValueError("Cannot find the version number!")
ValueError: Cannot find the version number!

This is happening because git describe no longer supports the --exclude option

robot@ev3dev:~/ev3dev-lang-python$ git describe --exclude ev3dev-* --abbrev=4
error: unknown option `exclude'
usage: git describe [<options>] [<commit-ish>...]
   or: git describe [<options>] --dirty

    --contains            find the tag that comes after the commit
    --debug               debug search strategy on stderr
    --all                 use any ref
    --tags                use any tag, even unannotated
    --long                always use long format
    --first-parent        only follow first parent
    --abbrev[=<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
    --exact-match         only output exact matches
    --candidates <n>      consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)
    --match <pattern>     only consider tags matching <pattern>
    --always              show abbreviated commit object as fallback
    --dirty[=<mark>]      append <mark> on dirty working tree (default: "-dirty")

robot@ev3dev:~/ev3dev-lang-python$

We need to update git_version.py to not use the --exclude option

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2reactions

dlechcommented, Dec 31, 2019

It is filtering out the debian package tags.

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ddemidovcommented, Dec 31, 2019

git describe --match <pattern> was there before exclude. Would it be possible to use it with a negative regex pattern?

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