From fb28a980863b0bf9b7e6f4bedbefecc8c1b2cc92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cas Cremers <cas.cremers@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:33:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] BUGFIX: In case sources are compiled outside of git, ran into
 error where trying to strip None.

---
 src/describe-version.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/describe-version.py b/src/describe-version.py
index cb68042..0747525 100755
--- a/src/describe-version.py
+++ b/src/describe-version.py
@@ -38,10 +38,11 @@ def getDescription():
         import sys
         import subprocess
         res = subprocess.check_output(["git","describe","--tags","--dirty"]+sys.argv[1:])
+        res = res.strip()
     except:
         res = None
 
-    return res.strip()
+    return res
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':