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@RobLoach RobLoach commented Oct 2, 2024

This implements omb version to attempt to retrieve the version of oh-my-bash using git.

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Couldn't version=$(cmd1) || version=$(cmd2) || ... be combined to version=$(cmd1 || cmd2 || ...) to reduce the number of forks? Or is there cases where the output is produced yet should be discarded when the command fails?

# 2) try branch name
# 3) try name-rev (tag~<rev> or branch~<rev>)
local version
version=$(command git -C "$OSH" describe --tags HEAD 2>/dev/null) \
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version=$(command git -C "$OSH" describe --tags HEAD 2>/dev/null) \
version=$(command git --git-dir="$OSH" describe --tags HEAD 2>/dev/null) \

See #311 for details. Sadly, CentOS was discontinued, yet many large systems continue to stay in CentOS 7. The same for the other occurrences of -C "$OSH"

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# 1) try tag-like version
# 2) try branch name
# 3) try name-rev (tag~<rev> or branch~<rev>)
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Is the branch name useful to identify the version? A branch name is a moving target.

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