From 687812320224e4e5de0080fdb708204891ddec84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 22:57:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Make configure.ac work for shallow clones

---
 configure.ac | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1edb4d8..1c77692 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-m4_define([jq_version], m4_esyscmd_s([git describe --tags --dirty --match 'jq-*'|sed 's/^jq-//']))
+m4_define([jq_version],
+          m4_esyscmd_s([(git rev-parse --verify -q jq-1.0 > /dev/null &&
+                        (git describe --tags --dirty --match 'jq-*'|sed 's/^jq-//')) ||
+                        echo `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`-`git describe --always --dirty`])))
 
 AC_INIT([jq], [jq_version], [https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues],
              [jq], [https://stedolan.github.io/jq])
-- 
2.40.0