From dab4d641ee297512c9e1c50586dd853103868cd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:50:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add last resort version string in scripts/version

---
 scripts/version | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/version b/scripts/version
index ba59e6b6aa..3af3626ead 100755
--- a/scripts/version
+++ b/scripts/version
@@ -2,7 +2,15 @@
 set -eu
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")/../"
-test -d .git || exit 1
+if ! [ -d .git ]; then
+  # Building from default GitHub tarball, or building from dist after running
+  # autoreconf unnecessarily.  This is something we can fail to update, but
+  # it's been generating a lot of questions.
+  #
+  # Now we'll have to make `Release jq-<version>` commits that change this:
+  echo "jq-1.7-misconfigured"
+  exit 0
+fi
 
 if git describe --tags --match 'jq-*' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   git describe --tags --match 'jq-*' --dirty | sed 's/^jq-//'