[konsole] [Bug 389864] New: git tagging issues

[RJVB]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389864

            Bug ID: 389864
           Summary: git tagging issues
           Product: konsole
           Version: master
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: rjvbertin at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

This has come up before (and corrected, after a code review) but since Konsole
isn't the only application concerned I'm logging a ticket for it:

I maintain a semi-official MacPorts packaging tree for quite a few KF5
projects, and a considerable number of those ports (packages) are based on
snapshots taken from the project git repos - if possible the master branch. I
rely on `git describe` to get a representative versioning for those ports.

Where necessary I add git tags myself, but it would be great if the upstream
version tags could be set in such a way that the `git describe` returns a
sensical value for the master branch too. That is: something in the form
YY.MM.NN-commitNr which:
- increases monotonically
- ideally corresponds to or reflects the current stable release
- at least corresponds to the version reported by `foo --version` and the
KAbout data.

This tends to work well enough for most projects, but for some like konsole
that has not been the case for a while now:
- `git describe` returns v17.11.90-110-ge2184aef on the master branch
- it returns v17.12.1-2-g5f0eea61 on the 17.12 release branch
- `konsole --version` returns 18.03.70

For comparison, okular's git log shows this:
```
commit e7f90332eaff404fbe03be814c94b5c4625542e2
Author: Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
Date:   Thu Jan 4 18:50:10 2018 +0100

    GIT_SILENT Upgrade KDE Applications version to 17.12.1.
```

(though apparently the 17.12.1 tag was set in commit
6ed35fcca3950a54dd5dbd80b90ecd7761467692)

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