Major Description
When a Knox build is executed outside of a git repo (e.g., src distributions), then the build.hash property in build.properties is not populated with an actual value.
This manifests as an unexpected response to the gateway version API:
{
"ServerVersion" : {
"version" : "0.14.0",
"hash" : "${buildNumber}"
}
This is due to the fact that the buildnumber-maven-plugin attempts to invoke 'git rev-parse --verify HEAD', which fails because it's not in a git repo.
This plugin apparently has a facility for specifying an alternate value when an scm error is encountered. It would be nice if Knox could employ that facility to provide a better value than ${buildNumber} in these cases.