do not check git

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/tools/read-version b/tools/read-version
index 3ea9e66e..06fd61a8 100755
--- a/tools/read-version
+++ b/tools/read-version
@@ -45,43 +45,14 @@ def which(program):
     return None
 
 
-def is_gitdir(path):
-    # Return boolean indicating if path is a git tree.
-    git_meta = os.path.join(path, '.git')
-    if os.path.isdir(git_meta):
-        return True
-    if os.path.exists(git_meta):
-        # in a git worktree, .git is a file with 'gitdir: x'
-        with open(git_meta, "rb") as fp:
-            if b'gitdir:' in fp.read():
-                return True
-    return False
-
-
 use_long = '--long' in sys.argv or os.environ.get('CI_RV_LONG')
 use_tags = '--tags' in sys.argv or os.environ.get('CI_RV_TAGS')
 output_json = '--json' in sys.argv
 
 src_version = ci_version.version_string()
 version_long = None
-
-if is_gitdir(_tdir) and which("git"):
-    flags = []
-    if use_tags:
-        flags = ['--tags']
-    cmd = ['git', 'describe', '--abbrev=8', '--match=[0-9]*'] + flags
-
-    version = tiny_p(cmd).strip()
-
-    if not version.startswith(src_version):
-        sys.stderr.write("git describe version (%s) differs from "
-                         "cloudinit.version (%s)\n" % (version, src_version))
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-    version_long = tiny_p(cmd + ["--long"]).strip()
-else:
-    version = src_version
-    version_long = None
+version = src_version
+version_long = None
 
 # version is X.Y.Z[+xxx.gHASH]
 # version_long is None or X.Y.Z-xxx-gHASH