Use the first-parent heuristic for describing the version

jepler · jepler · commit 4a23742100d9 · 2022-01-04T11:14:26.000-06:00
diff --git a/tools/describe b/tools/describe
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-git describe --dirty --tags --always --match "[1-9].*"
+git describe --first-parent --dirty --tags --always --match "[1-9].*"

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@`
`1`	`1`	`#!/bin/sh`
`2`		`-git describe --dirty --tags --always --match "[1-9].*"`
	`2`	`+git describe --first-parent --dirty --tags --always --match "[1-9].*"`