fun execString(vararg args: String): String { val pb = ProcessBuilder(*args) .redirectOutput(ProcessBuilder.Redirect.PIPE) .start() pb.waitFor() return pb.inputStream.readAllBytes().decodeToString().trim() } private val tag = "([0-9.]+)\\.0".toRegex() private val tagOffset = "([0-9.]+)\\.0-([0-9]+)..+".toRegex() inline fun Regex.useMatcher(string: String, block: (MatchResult) -> T): T? { return matchEntire(string)?.let(block) } fun getGitTagInfo(): String { val str = execString("git", "describe", "--tags", "HEAD") tag.useMatcher(str) { return it.groupValues[0] } tagOffset.useMatcher(str) { return it.groupValues[1] + "." + it.groupValues[2] } return "nogitversion" }