Version is built from git commit id, for example wmfs-ga33ec04-dirty -> 'g', this is a git repo -> a33ec04 is the beginning of the commit id (sha1) -> dirty mean that there is uncommitted changes wmfs users gives their 'wmfs -v' and developers can easily identify wmfs version. Move status.sh to scripts/ with setlocalversion Signed-off-by: Philippe Pepiot <phil@philpep.org>