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+################################################################################
+#
+# Program: 3D Slicer
+#
+# Copyright (c) Kitware Inc.
+#
+# See COPYRIGHT.txt
+# or http://www.slicer.org/copyright/copyright.txt for details.
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# This file was originally developed by Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Kitware Inc.
+# and was partially funded by NIH grant 3P41RR013218-12S1
+#
+# AG 2013-02-18: I got it from here
+# https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/blob/master/CMake/FindGit.cmake
+# license is BSD
+#
+################################################################################
+
+#
+# The module defines the following variables:
+# GIT_EXECUTABLE - path to git command line client
+# GIT_FOUND - true if the command line client was found
+#
+# If the command line client executable is found the macro
+# GIT_WC_INFO(
)
+# is defined to extract information of a git working copy at
+# a given location.
+#
+# The macro defines the following variables:
+# _WC_REVISION_HASH - Current SHA1 hash
+# _WC_REVISION - Current SHA1 hash
+# _WC_REVISION_NAME - Name associated with _WC_REVISION_HASH
+# _WC_URL - output of command `git config --get remote.origin.url'
+# _WC_ROOT - Same value as working copy URL
+# _WC_GITSVN - Set to false
+#
+# ... and also the following ones if it's a git-svn repository:
+# _WC_GITSVN - Set to True if it is a
+# _WC_INFO - output of command `git svn info'
+# _WC_URL - url of the associated SVN repository
+# _WC_ROOT - root url of the associated SVN repository
+# _WC_REVISION - current SVN revision number
+# _WC_LAST_CHANGED_AUTHOR - author of last commit
+# _WC_LAST_CHANGED_DATE - date of last commit
+# _WC_LAST_CHANGED_REV - revision of last commit
+# _WC_LAST_CHANGED_LOG - last log of base revision
+#
+# Example usage:
+# find_package(Git)
+# if(GIT_FOUND)
+# GIT_WC_INFO(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} Project)
+# message("Current revision is ${Project_WC_REVISION_HASH}")
+# message("git found: ${GIT_EXECUTABLE}")
+# endif()
+#
+
+# Look for 'git' or 'eg' (easy git)
+#
+set(git_names git eg)
+
+# Prefer .cmd variants on Windows unless running in a Makefile
+# in the MSYS shell.
+#
+if(WIN32)
+ if(NOT CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "MSYS")
+ # Note: Due to a bug in 'git.cmd' preventing it from returning the exit code of 'git',
+ # we excluded it from the list of executables to search.
+ # See http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=428
+ # TODO Check if 'git' exists, get the associated version, if the corresponding version
+ # is known to have a working version of 'git.cmd', use it.
+ set(git_names git eg.cmd eg)
+ endif()
+endif()
+
+find_program(GIT_EXECUTABLE ${git_names}
+ PATHS
+ "C:/Program Files/Git/bin"
+ "C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin"
+ DOC "git command line client")
+mark_as_advanced(GIT_EXECUTABLE)
+
+if(GIT_EXECUTABLE)
+ macro(GIT_WC_INFO dir prefix)
+ execute_process(COMMAND ${GIT_EXECUTABLE} rev-parse --verify -q --short=7 HEAD
+ WORKING_DIRECTORY ${dir}
+ ERROR_VARIABLE GIT_error
+ OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${prefix}_WC_REVISION_HASH
+ OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+ set(${prefix}_WC_REVISION ${${prefix}_WC_REVISION_HASH})
+ if(NOT ${GIT_error} EQUAL 0)
+ message(SEND_ERROR "Command \"${GIT_EXECUTBALE} rev-parse --verify -q --short=7 HEAD\" in directory ${dir} failed with output:\n${GIT_error}")
+ else(NOT ${GIT_error} EQUAL 0)
+ execute_process(COMMAND ${GIT_EXECUTABLE} name-rev ${${prefix}_WC_REVISION_HASH}
+ WORKING_DIRECTORY ${dir}
+ OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${prefix}_WC_REVISION_NAME
+ OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+ endif(NOT ${GIT_error} EQUAL 0)
+
+ execute_process(COMMAND ${GIT_EXECUTABLE} config --get remote.origin.url
+ WORKING_DIRECTORY ${dir}
+ OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${prefix}_WC_URL
+ OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+
+ set(${prefix}_WC_GITSVN False)
+
+ # Check if this git is likely to be a git-svn repository
+ execute_process(COMMAND ${GIT_EXECUTABLE} config --get-regexp "^svn-remote"
+ WORKING_DIRECTORY ${dir}
+ OUTPUT_VARIABLE git_config_output
+ OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+ )
+
+ if(NOT "${git_config_output}" STREQUAL "")
+ # In case git-svn is used, attempt to extract svn info
+ execute_process(COMMAND ${GIT_EXECUTABLE} svn info
+ WORKING_DIRECTORY ${dir}
+ TIMEOUT 3
+ ERROR_VARIABLE git_svn_info_error
+ OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${prefix}_WC_INFO
+ RESULT_VARIABLE git_svn_info_result
+ OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+
+ if(${git_svn_info_result} EQUAL 0)
+ set(${prefix}_WC_GITSVN True)
+ string(REGEX REPLACE "^(.*\n)?URL: ([^\n]+).*"
+ "\\2" ${prefix}_WC_URL "${${prefix}_WC_INFO}")
+ string(REGEX REPLACE "^(.*\n)?Revision: ([^\n]+).*"
+ "\\2" ${prefix}_WC_REVISION "${${prefix}_WC_INFO}")
+ string(REGEX REPLACE "^(.*\n)?Repository Root: ([^\n]+).*"
+ "\\2" ${prefix}_WC_ROOT "${${prefix}_WC_INFO}")
+ string(REGEX REPLACE "^(.*\n)?Last Changed Author: ([^\n]+).*"
+ "\\2" ${prefix}_WC_LAST_CHANGED_AUTHOR "${${prefix}_WC_INFO}")
+ string(REGEX REPLACE "^(.*\n)?Last Changed Rev: ([^\n]+).*"
+ "\\2" ${prefix}_WC_LAST_CHANGED_REV "${${prefix}_WC_INFO}")
+ string(REGEX REPLACE "^(.*\n)?Last Changed Date: ([^\n]+).*"
+ "\\2" ${prefix}_WC_LAST_CHANGED_DATE "${${prefix}_WC_INFO}")
+ endif(${git_svn_info_result} EQUAL 0)
+ endif(NOT "${git_config_output}" STREQUAL "")
+
+ # If there is no 'remote.origin', default to "NA" value and print a warning message.
+ if(NOT ${prefix}_WC_URL)
+ message(WARNING "No remote origin set for git repository: ${dir}" )
+ set( ${prefix}_WC_URL "NA" )
+ else()
+ set(${prefix}_WC_ROOT ${${prefix}_WC_URL})
+ endif()
+
+ endmacro(GIT_WC_INFO)
+endif(GIT_EXECUTABLE)
+
+# Handle the QUIETLY and REQUIRED arguments and set GIT_FOUND to TRUE if
+# all listed variables are TRUE
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+find_package_handle_standard_args(Git DEFAULT_MSG GIT_EXECUTABLE)
+
+