From 4b7f4f04e39779c3496855ea46fff565c360a4d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 02:14:11 +0100
Subject: Prepare a versioning mechanism for the tracker that works from
 tarballs

---
 Makefile                        | 5 +++--
 ot_stats.c                      | 9 ++++++---
 tests/integration/test_stats.py | 7 ++++---
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 92e911d..bf4883e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -53,12 +53,13 @@ FEATURES+=-DWANT_FULLSCRAPE
 #FEATURES+=-D_DEBUG_HTTPERROR
 #FEATURES+=-D_DEBUG_RANDOMTORRENTS
 
-GIT_VERSION=`sh -c 'command -v git >/dev/null && test -d .git && git rev-parse HEAD || echo _git_or_commit_not_found_'`
+VERSION=1.0.0
+GIT_VERSION=`sh -c 'command -v git >/dev/null && test -d .git && git describe --tags --match "v*" --always --dirty 2>/dev/null'`
 
 OPTS_debug=-D_DEBUG -g -ggdb # -pg -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
 OPTS_production=-O3
 
-CFLAGS+=-DGIT_VERSION=$(GIT_VERSION) -Wall -pipe -pthread -Wextra -Wwrite-strings #-ansi -pedantic
+CFLAGS+=-DOT_VERSION=\"$(VERSION)\" -DGIT_VERSION=\"$(GIT_VERSION)\" -Wall -pipe -pthread -Wextra -Wwrite-strings #-ansi -pedantic
 LDFLAGS+=-pthread
 
 # Only the proxy, which has not been ported since the tracker went dual stack,
diff --git a/ot_stats.c b/ot_stats.c
index eb046a0..a9f12cc 100644
--- a/ot_stats.c
+++ b/ot_stats.c
@@ -547,9 +547,12 @@ static void stats_return_everything(char **reply, const char *reply_end) {
 }
 
 void stats_return_tracker_version(char **reply, const char *reply_end) {
-#define QUOTE(name) #name
-#define SQUOTE(name) QUOTE(name)
-  fmt_append(reply, reply_end, "https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/opentracker/commit/?id=" SQUOTE(GIT_VERSION) "\n");
+  fmt_append(reply, reply_end, "opentracker %s", OT_VERSION);
+  /* Empty when the build had no git to ask, which is what a release tarball
+     looks like */
+  if (*GIT_VERSION)
+    fmt_append(reply, reply_end, " (%s)", GIT_VERSION);
+  fmt_append(reply, reply_end, "\n");
 }
 
 void return_stats_for_tracker(char **reply, const char *reply_end, int mode, int format) {
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_stats.py b/tests/integration/test_stats.py
index 46e9c64..7b778d3 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_stats.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_stats.py
@@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ class StatsShape(TrackerTestCase):
         self.assertIsNotNone(root.find("torrents/count_mutex"))
         self.assertIsNotNone(root.find("connections/tcp/announce"))
 
-    def test_version_names_a_commit(self):
-        self.assertIn(b"opentracker", self.tracker.stats("version").lower() + b"opentracker")
-        self.assertRegex(self.tracker.stats("version"), rb"https?://")
+    def test_version_names_the_release(self):
+        # A build from a checkout appends what git describe said, a build from
+        # a tarball has nothing to append, so the commit is optional here.
+        self.assertRegex(self.tracker.stats("version"), rb"^opentracker \d+\.\d+\.\d+( \(\S+\))?\n$")
 
 
 class StatsCount(TrackerTestCase):
-- 
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