About version fetching

[groutoutlook]

Right now at 0b98aaa , when I run:

$ ov --version
ov version dev rev:HEAD

I dont know if this is a bug or not, so I will place it here first. Maybe it's just an user problem.

[noborus]

This is not a bug - it's the expected behavior.

When you see ov version dev rev:HEAD, it means you built the binary using go build or go install directly.

To display the correct version information, you need to build using the Makefile:

make build
# or
make install

Why this happens

The Makefile sets LDFLAGS to inject version information at build time:

LDFLAGS := "-X main.Version=$(shell git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --always) -X main.Revision=$(shell git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD)"

This sets:

• main.Version to the latest git tag
• main.Revision to the current commit hash (short version)

When you use go build or go install directly without these flags, the default values defined in main.go are used (Version = "dev", Revision = "HEAD").

Solutions

Recommended: Use make build or make install
If you need to build directly with go build, include the LDFLAGS manually:

go build -ldflags "-X main.Version=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --always) -X main.Revision=$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD)"

[groutoutlook]

I have rebuilt it with:

$ go build -ldflags="-s -w -X main.Version=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --always) -X main.Revision=$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD)" 
$ ov --version
ov version v0.45.1 rev:0b98aaa

Thanks.

EDIT: it's always surprising to see go has the ability to invoke other toolchains within -ldflags option like that. And I'm in Windows! It's pwsh syntax to enable the command invoked inside ldflags. TIL.

[noborus]

Sorry, I specified it incorrectly.
Thank you for correcting it.