From 00acd06340273ed321b0a86581de759a1970ab75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:18:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Tweak get-version to do the right thing with multiple head
 tags.

---
 bld/get-version | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bld/get-version b/bld/get-version
index 900d8ac..0ac948a 100755
--- a/bld/get-version
+++ b/bld/get-version
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 # which has a set of references substituted into it by git.
 # If we can find one which matches $v[0-9].* then we assume it's
 # a version-number tag, else we just use the whole string.
+# If there is more than one v[0-9].* tag, sort them and use the
+# first. This favours, eg v2.63 over 2.63rc6.
 
 if which git >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -d $1/.git ]; then
      cd $1; git describe
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ else
      vers=`cat $1/VERSION | sed 's/[(), ]/,/ g' | tr ',' '\n' | grep $v[0-9]`
 
      if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-         echo "${vers}" | head -n 1 | sed 's/^v//'
+         echo "${vers}" | sort | head -n 1 | sed 's/^v//'
      else
          cat $1/VERSION
      fi