read-version: When insufficient tags, use cloudinit.version.get_version

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/read-version b/tools/read-version
index 50f91b5d..3a0561a3 100755
--- a/tools/read-version
+++ b/tools/read-version
@@ -90,7 +90,16 @@ if is_gitdir(_tdir) and which("git") and not is_release_branch_ci:
             branch_name,
         ] + flags
 
-        version = tiny_p(cmd).strip()
+        try:
+            version = tiny_p(cmd).strip()
+            version_long = tiny_p(cmd + ["--long"]).strip()
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+            if "No tags can describe" in e.stderr:
+                print(f"{cmd} found no tags. Using cloudinit.verison.py ")
+                version = src_version
+                version_long = ""
+            else:
+                raise
         version_long = tiny_p(cmd + ["--long"]).strip()
 else:
     version = src_version