init script & fix the version info thing

yeah so turns out $Id$ is not what it seems

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/update-version b/bin/update-version
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b9b3d21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/update-version
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+cd "$(dirname "$0")" || exit 1
+[ -L "$(basename "$0")" ] && cd "$(dirname "$(readlink "$(basename "$0")")")"
+if ! git describe --tags 2>/dev/null > ../VERSION; then
+    printf 'git ' > ../VERSION
+    git rev-parse --short HEAD >> ../VERSION
+fi
+printf 'stored version: '
+cat ../VERSION
\ No newline at end of file