Use the contents of RELEASE as version fallback instead of 'UNKNOWN'

This makes binaries produced by source tarballs identify themselves with
the version number of the corresponding release series, unless overriden
by a 'VERSION' file.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb49d7c
--- a/dev/null
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.7
diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
index 6ec2b25..7911e46 100755
--- a/version.sh
+++ b/version.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ revision=$(cd "$1" && git describe --always 2> /dev/null)
 test "$revision" && revision=git-$revision
 
 # no revision number found
-test "$revision" || revision=UNKNOWN
+test "$revision" || revision=$(cd "$1" && cat RELEASE 2> /dev/null)
 
 # releases extract the version number from the VERSION file
 version=$(cd "$1" && cat VERSION 2> /dev/null)