Swappy fails to configure and therefore build when using source tarball

[ceres-sees-all]

When compiling from source using a tarball from any release since 1.5.1, the meson configuration fails due to the tarball not containing a git repo:

$ meson setup build

The Meson build system
Version: 1.9.1
Source dir: /home/ceres/Downloads/swappy-1.8.0
Build dir: /home/ceres/Downloads/swappy-1.8.0/build
Build type: native build
Project name: swappy
Project version: 1.8.0
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 15.2.0 "cc (Gentoo 15.2.0 p5) 15.2.0")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.45
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Program git found: YES (/usr/bin/git)

meson.build:17:14: ERROR: Command `/usr/bin/git rev-parse --short HEAD` failed with status 128.

This makes packaging for a from source distribution like gentoo largely impossible for any version past 1.5.1