From ea58a1f1e5c5f7d9803c1c2a452f01e5cc3901d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kesterson <akesterson@bridgephase.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:07:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Modify gitversion.sh to support accepting VERSIONERS_TAGBASE
 so that you can generate changelogs between release versions, rc versions,
 and build versions separately.

---
 gitversion.sh | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitversion.sh b/gitversion.sh
index b3baf48..6130c37 100644
--- a/gitversion.sh
+++ b/gitversion.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 LOGSPEC='%ci %an <%aE>%n%n    %s%n    [%h]%d%n'
 VERSIONERS_SEPARATOR=${VERSIONERS_SEPARATOR:-,}
+VERSIONERS_TAGBASE=${VERSIONERS_TAGBASE:-build}
 
 BRANCH=$2
 if [ "${BRANCH}" == "" ]; then
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ fi
 
 REBUILDING=0
 SHA1=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
-TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null)
+TAG=$(git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --pretty="format:%D" | grep -Eo "${VERSIONERS_TAGBASE},[0-9\.]+,[0-9]+" 2>/dev/null)
 BUILD=0
 TAGSHA=$(git rev-list $TAG | head -n 1)
 CHANGELOG="$(git log --format="format:$LOGSPEC" ${TAGSHA}..HEAD)"