lib/bpgit.py: enable extra arguments on git describe

Upstream commit: ea70308d746325654d44851be602fe02492b59f9

This lets us throw at it whatever extra stuff we want.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/bpgit.py b/lib/bpgit.py
index 31b7de36..9a3f430b 100644
--- a/lib/bpgit.py
+++ b/lib/bpgit.py
@@ -27,8 +27,14 @@ def rev_parse(rev='HEAD', tree=None):
         raise SHAError()
     return sha
 
-def describe(rev='HEAD', tree=None):
-    process = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'describe', '--always', '--long', rev],
+def describe(rev='HEAD', tree=None, extra_args=[]):
+    cmd = ['git', 'describe', '--always']
+
+    cmd.extend(extra_args)
+    if rev is not None:
+        cmd.append(rev)
+
+    process = subprocess.Popen(cmd,
                                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
                                close_fds=True, universal_newlines=True, cwd=tree)
     stdout = process.communicate()[0]