From 677aa0dc911a452399e35e2c2b5bd18b25f5b55a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:14:15 -0700
Subject: Fix version verification when "\|" doesn't work in sed.

---
 mkgitver | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mkgitver b/mkgitver
index 75c9fe1e..0102b089 100755
--- a/mkgitver
+++ b/mkgitver
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ if [ ! -f git-version.h ]; then
 fi
 
 if test -d "$srcdir/.git" || test -f "$srcdir/.git"; then
-    gitver=`git describe --abbrev=8 2>/dev/null | sed -n '/^v3\.[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*\(pre[0-9]*\)*\(-\|$\)/p'`
-    if [ -n "$gitver" ]; then
+    gitver=`git describe --abbrev=8 2>/dev/null`
+    # NOTE: I'm avoiding "|" in sed since I'm not sure if sed -r is portable and "\|" fails on some OSes.
+    verchk=`echo "$gitver-" | sed -n '/^v3\.[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*\(pre[0-9]*\)*-/p'`
+    if [ -n "$verchk" ]; then
 	echo "#define RSYNC_GITVER \"$gitver\"" >git-version.h.new
 	if ! diff git-version.h.new git-version.h >/dev/null; then
 	    echo "Updating git-version.h"
-- 
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