Release Sources Build - Git Error

[Asgaror]

Describe the bug
Building the sources from release produces error messages although the build succeeds:
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Environment information:

• OS: Linux 5.11.0-27-generic x86_64

Steps to Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download sources https://github.com/skycoin/skywire/archive/refs/tags/v0.4.2.zip
2. Extract and enter directory
3. Execute make build
4. See error: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Actual behavior
Building the source should not produce any error messages even if there is no initialized .git repository.

Expected behavior
make build of sources from any release should not produce the error message.

Additional context
The Makefile commands in:

• line 11 and
• line 16
  appear to be causing this bug.

[0pcom]

I identified this issue.

The context of it's occurrence is in any build which uses the source archive for a particular versioned release rather than just the latest commits on whichever branch. It's a smaller download to use the source archive, and the build is more consistent.

the skywire AUR PKGBUILD

My solution above is to manually version to the tag version in the build, with the necessary lines borrowed (and modified) from the Makefile.

The general solution would be to specifically alter how the versions are generated in the release archive- in order to not have to use git for the versioning. I don't think it's bad to use git for versioning, nor do i think it should stop being used; but it remains unclear how to sufficiently reduce the size of the .git folder to the point it would not needlessly bloat the archive for the simple purpose of supplying the version.