Calculate core version with 'git describe' and update automatically in changelog as well #1510
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This PR updates the way we calculate the core version to allow us to use unofficial releases, and still report a unique tag, instead of just tagging with the version number of the lates official release.
It just uses
git describe
instead of parsing thedependencies.list
file.git describe --abbrev=5
do the right thing on pure tagged commits as well, fx.produces: