build: don't check parent directories for git tag

Author: leecannon

.gitattributes

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Lee Cannon <leecannon@leecannon.xyz>
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Lee Cannon <leecannon@leecannon.xyz>
 
 *.zig text eol=lf
 *.zon text eol=lf

.github/workflows/CI.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Lee Cannon <leecannon@leecannon.xyz>
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Lee Cannon <leecannon@leecannon.xyz>
 
 name: CI
 

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Lee Cannon <leecannon@leecannon.xyz>
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Lee Cannon <leecannon@leecannon.xyz>
 
 .zig-cache/
 zig-out/

build.zig

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ fn getVersionString(b: *std.Build, base_semantic_version: std.SemanticVersion, r
 
     var exit_code: u8 = undefined;
     const raw_git_describe_output = b.runAllowFail(&[_][]const u8{
-        "git", "-C", root_path, "describe", "--match", "*.*.*", "--tags", "--abbrev=9",
+        "git", "-C", "--git-dir", ".git", root_path, "describe", "--match", "*.*.*", "--tags", "--abbrev=9",
     }, &exit_code, .Ignore) catch {
         return b.fmt("{s}-unknown", .{version_string});
     };

src/shared.zig

@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ pub fn readFileIntoBuffer(
     return buffer[0..read];
 }
 
-pub const version_string = "{s} (zig-coreutils) " ++ options.version ++ "\nMIT License Copyright (c) 2021-2023 Lee Cannon\n";
+pub const version_string = "{s} (zig-coreutils) " ++ options.version ++ "\nMIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Lee Cannon\n";
 
 pub fn ArgIterator(comptime T: type) type {
     return struct {