[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] version.sh: Always use latest tag for generated version number

[Timo Rothenpieler]

> Accessing a remote URL in the version script seems like a bad idea to me.

I aggree, but I'm unsure how to propperly address the issue.
The problem is that a plain "git pull" does not update tags,
so if you have an older clone you allways updated via git pull, you end
up with a version number based on an older tag.

The idea behind that fetch command is to fail silently after taking a
maximum of 10 seconds to download the latest tags.

libav (and a lot of other project aswell) just ignores that issue and
uses a plain git describe --tags --always.

> - Hendrik
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