From 2aa38bfc4b5ac06f6b491c920756f501b478b085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakob Borg <jakob@nym.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:17:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Get version from RELEASE file if it exists, or guess from
 directory (fixes #1449)

---
 .gitignore |  1 +
 build.go   | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e516c2210..6fa7aae2b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ coverage.xml
 .DS_Store
 syncthing.md5
 syncthing.exe.md5
+RELEASE
diff --git a/build.go b/build.go
index f727e3113..a2446d2d5 100644
--- a/build.go
+++ b/build.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"compress/gzip"
 	"crypto/md5"
+	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@@ -350,16 +351,66 @@ func rmr(paths ...string) {
 	}
 }
 
-func getVersion() string {
+func getReleaseVersion() (string, error) {
+	fd, err := os.Open("RELEASE")
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	defer fd.Close()
+
+	bs, err := ioutil.ReadAll(fd)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return string(bytes.TrimSpace(bs)), nil
+}
+
+func getGitVersion() (string, error) {
 	v, err := runError("git", "describe", "--always", "--dirty")
 	if err != nil {
-		return "unknown-dev"
+		return "", err
 	}
 	v = versionRe.ReplaceAllFunc(v, func(s []byte) []byte {
 		s[0] = '+'
 		return s
 	})
-	return string(v)
+	return string(v), nil
+}
+
+func getDirectoryVersion() (string, error) {
+	wd, err := os.Getwd()
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	base := filepath.Base(filepath.Clean(wd))
+
+	re := regexp.MustCompile(`syncthing-(v?\d+\.\d+\.\d+)`)
+	parts := re.FindStringSubmatch(base)
+
+	if len(parts) != 2 {
+		return "", errors.New("not a release directory")
+	}
+	if strings.HasPrefix(parts[1], "v") {
+		return parts[1], nil
+	}
+	return "v" + parts[1], nil
+}
+
+func getVersion() string {
+	// First try for a RELEASE file,
+	if ver, err := getReleaseVersion(); err == nil {
+		return ver
+	}
+	// ... then see if we have a Git tag,
+	if ver, err := getGitVersion(); err == nil {
+		return ver
+	}
+	// ... otherwise try to guess from the directory name.
+	if ver, err := getDirectoryVersion(); err == nil {
+		return ver
+	}
+	// This seems to be a dev build.
+	return "unknown-dev"
 }
 
 func buildStamp() int64 {