FUNCTIONS: Add get_scm_version function

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/FUNCTIONS b/FUNCTIONS
index 970d6975f0..8671001a77 100755
--- a/FUNCTIONS
+++ b/FUNCTIONS
@@ -662,6 +662,18 @@ function get_up_spell_name() {
   echo ${1:-$SPELL} | tr "a-z-" "A-Z_"
 }
 
+#---
+## Get branch-based/autoupdate-aware version number
+#---
+function get_scm_version() {
+  local spell=$(get_up_spell_name) &&
+  local spell_branch="$spell"_BRANCH &&
+  local spell_autoupdate="$spell"_AUTOUPDATE &&
+  echo "${!spell_branch:-scm}$(
+        [[ "${!spell_autoupdate}" = y ]] && date "+-%Y%m%d")"
+}
+
+
 # Move SPELL_OPTS to OPTS
 # basicly generic OPTS="$SPELL_OPTS $OPTS"
 function prepare_opts() {