From 2f8584d673f3df67b0308324ecdaa5bcbf5a3a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Brown <brownwm@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:52:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] adds support for v prefix in release tags

Signed-off-by: Mike Brown <brownwm@us.ibm.com>
---
 Makefile | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c502fd224..cdd388d44 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ BUILD_DIR ?= _output
 # VERSION is derived from the current tag for HEAD plus amends. Version is used
 # to set/overide the criContainerdVersion variable in the verison package for
 # cri-containerd.
-VERSION:=$(shell git describe --tags --dirty)
+VERSION := $(shell git describe --tags --dirty)
+# strip the first char of the tag if it's a `v`
+VERSION := $(VERSION:v%=%)
 BUILD_TAGS:= -ldflags '-X $(PROJECT)/pkg/version.criContainerdVersion=$(VERSION)'
 
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