From 21620f3c652bc874776acc7251f05b25d2838019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LN Liberda <lauren@selfisekai.rocks>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 18:20:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] build: Don't check parent directories for git tag

Sometimes Zig is built not from a git repository (e.g. from tarball), but inside another git repository (e.g. distro package repository). Make sure that the version check tries to parse a tag of Zig, and not of a parent directory.
---
 build.zig | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/build.zig b/build.zig
index 9a52a35275..c8056295e9 100644
--- a/build.zig
+++ b/build.zig
@@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) !void {
             "git",
             "-C",
             b.build_root.path orelse ".",
+            "--git-dir",
+            ".git",
             "describe",
             "--match",
             "*.*.*",