Merge pull request #1360 from adafruit/tannewt-patch-5

Make sure the commit builds include version info

Author: dhalbert

.travis.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ language: c
 compiler:
   - gcc
 git:
-  depth: 6
+  depth: 1
 
 # Each item under 'env' is a separate Travis job to execute.
 # They run in separate environments, so each one must take the time
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ notifications:
     on_error: always
 
 before_script:
+  # Expand the git tree back to 4.0.0-alpha.1 and then fetch the latest tag.
+  - LAST_TAG=`git ls-remote --quiet --tags --sort=version:refname | egrep -o "refs/tags/[0-9]+.*\$" | tail -n 1`
+  - git fetch --shallow-exclude=4.0.0-alpha.1
+  - git fetch --depth 1 origin $LAST_TAG:$LAST_TAG
+  - git describe --dirty --always --tags
   - function var_search () { case "$1" in *$2*) true;; *) false;; esac; }
   - sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386