execute_process(COMMAND "${GIT}" rev-parse --short HEAD RESULT_VARIABLE RET OUTPUT_VARIABLE COMMIT OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)

if(RET)
    message(WARNING "Cannot determine current commit. Make sure that you are building either from a Git working tree or from a source archive.")
    set(VERSIONTAG "unknown")
    configure_file("src/version.h.in" "${TO}")
else()
	message(STATUS "You are currently on commit ${COMMIT}")
	execute_process(COMMAND "${GIT}" show-ref --tags -d --abbrev COMMAND awk "END{print $1}" RESULT_VARIABLE RET OUTPUT_VARIABLE TAGGEDCOMMIT OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
	if(RET AND NOT TAGGEDCOMMIT)
	    message(WARNING "Cannot determine most recent tag. Make sure that you are building either from a Git working tree or from a source archive.")
	    set(VERSIONTAG "${COMMIT}")
	else()
		message(STATUS "The most recent tag was at ${TAGGEDCOMMIT}")
		if(${COMMIT} MATCHES ${TAGGEDCOMMIT})
			message(STATUS "You are building a tagged release")
		    set(VERSIONTAG "release")
		else()
			message(STATUS "You are ahead or behind of a tagged release")
		    set(VERSIONTAG "${COMMIT}")
		endif()
	endif()	    

    configure_file("src/version.h.in" "${TO}")
endif()