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    fix: Add at build time the git revion to version · 76ef2fe0
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    Instead of having a hardcoded version, calculate the version at build
    time making use of `git describe --tags --dirty --always`.
    
    This way, even if the program is not running from inside a git
    repository it still can know which was the git revision from the
    source it was installed from.
    If the program is launched from a path that is a git repository, it
    does not gives the git revision of that other repository.
    
    If's also able to get the version when installed from a tarball.
    It does not add the git revision when it's being install from a git
    tag.
    
    `versioneer` external program is only needed the first time, because
    it copies itself into the repository. So it does not add an external
    dependency.
    
    There're no changes needed to the `--version` cli argument nor to the
    code that generates the bandwidth file, since they both use the
    variable `__version__`.
    
    The version previous to this commit was `1.1.1-dev0`, after
    this commit, it becomes `1.1.0+xx.gyyyyyyyy`, i...
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