From c42b114fbe267c198472cc43e9b6ac612ea57144 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Koopman <djk@tobit.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 18:20:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix git describe for 2009 vintage git!

---
 Changes         | 2 ++
 perl/cluster.pl | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index a883fa66..c2d65cd8 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+12Dec21=======================================================================
+1. fix git describe et al AGAIN to cope with (very) old (2009) git versions.
 11Dec21=======================================================================
 1. Removed dependency on perl Git package.
 2. Fixed errors caused by change 1 (use git -C $root to force .git location).
diff --git a/perl/cluster.pl b/perl/cluster.pl
index 7436c874..b544d7de 100755
--- a/perl/cluster.pl
+++ b/perl/cluster.pl
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ if (DXSql::init($dsn)) {
 
 	# determine the real Git build number and branch
 	my $desc;
-	eval {$desc = `git -C $root describe --long`};
+	eval {$desc = `git --git-dir=$root/.git describe --long`};
 	if (!$@ && $desc) {
 		my ($v, $s, $b, $g) = $desc =~ /^([\d\.]+)(?:\.(\d+))?-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]+)/;
 		$version = $v;
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ if (DXSql::init($dsn)) {
     if (!$@) {
 		my @branch;
 		
-		eval {@branch = `git -C $root branch`};
+		eval {@branch = `git --git-dir=$root/.git branch`};
 		unless ($@) {
 			for (@branch) {
 				my ($star, $b) = split /\s+/;
-- 
2.43.0