To get the version, find the last tag in git tag of the form "v2.0.0" or
"2.0.0". If this is the last tag and the current commit matches the ref
of this tag, the revision will be empty.
In the case that the current commit is not tagged with a version, to get
the revision, use the short sha unless the current commit is tagged with
something that is not a version string, e.g. "feature-foo", in which
case the revision will be "feature-foo".
If the current commit is tagged as e.g. "v2.0.1-foo" or "2.0.1-foo" then
the version will be "2.0.1" and the revision will be "foo". Tags of this
form are also checked when finding the current version.
This is all done in cmake. If there is no git detected, the version will
be "2.0.0" and the revision will be "unknown".
Use cmake to generate the version.h from version.h.in which is a cleaned
up version of the old version.h with the git short sha into the build
directory, and include the version.h from there.
Continue to use the GetGitRevisionDescription plugin to make the cmake
configuration state depend on the current sha of HEAD, but throw away
the results (for the time being.)
This makes rebuilds after git changes such as a commit only recompile a
couple of files instead of the whole tree.
Rafael Kitover