From 6198e59f04b6112e4f654b5c10b4d9b696bd98cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Griatch <griatch@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:58:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Made version string more terse by using the short hash
 instead of the full one.

---
 VERSION.txt        | 2 +-
 src/utils/utils.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index caed21a73a..4cc8a67cd0 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Beta
+Beta-GIT
diff --git a/src/utils/utils.py b/src/utils/utils.py
index a8065ab41c..3ffef26c8f 100644
--- a/src/utils/utils.py
+++ b/src/utils/utils.py
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ def get_evennia_version():
     """
     try:
         f = open(settings.BASE_PATH + os.sep + "VERSION.txt", 'r')
-        return "%s-r%s" % (f.read().strip(), os.popen("git log --format=\"%H\" -n 1").read().strip())
+        return "%s-%s" % (f.read().strip(), os.popen("git rev-parse --short HEAD").read().strip())
     except IOError:
         return "Unknown version"