From 8efa6c383709fcfb8871e0168e8aa3f97892e4f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Palus <jpalus@fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:53:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] build: restrict git describe to top level source directory

fix version determination when building mpv from release tarball
extracted within another git repository
---
 common/meson.build | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/meson.build b/common/meson.build
index 4bca5ea435..202880f365 100644
--- a/common/meson.build
+++ b/common/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 version_h = vcs_tag(
-    command: ['git', 'describe', '--always', '--tags', '--dirty'],
+    command: ['git',
+        '--git-dir=' + join_paths(source_root, '.git'),
+        '--work-tree=' + source_root,
+        'describe', '--always', '--tags', '--dirty'],
     input: 'version.h.in',
     output: 'version.h',
     replace_string: '@VERSION@',