>From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattlaptop.metaesthetics.net>
Date: Sun Mar 5 23:16:01 2006 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix setlocalversion to follow a `ref: ' when looking for a GIT version suffix

---

 scripts/setlocalversion |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 7c805c8..229bda7 100644
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ sub do_git_checks {
 	my $head = <H>;
 	chomp $head;
 	close(H);
+	# Follow a ref: in the HEAD
+	if ($head =~ s/^ref: //) {
+		open(H,"<.git/" . $head) or return;
+		$head = <H>;
+		chomp $head;
+		close(H);
+	}
 
 	opendir(D,".git/refs/tags") or return;
 	foreach my $tagfile (grep !/^\.{1,2}$/, readdir(D)) {
-- 
1.2.4