--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1)
+
+# First argument is the path to the lttng modules sources.
+TOP_LTTNG_MODULES_DIR="$1"
+
+GIT_VERSION="0"
+
+if test -x "$(which git 2>&1;true)" && test -r "${TOP_LTTNG_MODULES_DIR}/.git"; then
+ GIT_VERSION_STR="$(cd "${TOP_LTTNG_MODULES_DIR}" && git describe --tags --dirty)"
+ GIT_CURRENT_TAG="$(cd "${TOP_LTTNG_MODULES_DIR}" && git describe --tags --exact-match --match="v[0-9]*" HEAD 2> /dev/null)"
+
+ GIT_VERSION="${GIT_VERSION_STR}"
+
+ if ! echo "${GIT_VERSION_STR}" | grep -- "-dirty" >/dev/null && test "x$GIT_CURRENT_TAG" != "x"; then
+ GIT_VERSION="0"
+ fi
+fi
+
+echo "${GIT_VERSION}"