shadow version string: get commit hash and dirty status more robustly #2281
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Adding the
--always
tag allowsgit describe
to succeed even ifa relevant tag can't be found. e.g. in the case of a shallow checkout
without tags it results in a version string like "5a6993e" instead of
the hard-coded version number "v2.1.0", which is misleading.