Use plain git hash for VERSION when there is no exact tag.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 3cc5c2f27..d97a2f97c 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -38,17 +38,17 @@ APPNAME = 'dcpomatic'
 libdcp_version = '1.8.73'
 libsub_version = '1.6.42'
 
-this_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git tag -l --points-at HEAD'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
-last_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git describe --tags --match v* --abbrev=0'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
+this_version = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'tag', '-l', '--points-at', 'HEAD'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
+git_head = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'rev-parse', '--short=9', 'HEAD'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
 
 # Python 2/3 compatibility; I don't really understand what's going on here
 if not isinstance(this_version, str):
     this_version = this_version.decode('utf-8')
-if not isinstance(last_version, str):
-    last_version = last_version.decode('utf-8')
+if not isinstance(git_head, str):
+    git_head = git_head.decode('utf-8')
 
-if this_version == '' or this_version == 'merged-to-main':
-    VERSION = '%sdevel' % last_version[1:].strip()
+if this_version == '':
+    VERSION = git_head.strip()
 else:
     VERSION = this_version[1:].strip()