From 7dcc7be8e0de5d177faaae6ed7540efca6c015ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Azul <azul@riseup.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:35:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] get the proper git revision even when not started from node
 dir

---
 node/server.js | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/node/server.js b/node/server.js
index 461e82693..8c70e075d 100644
--- a/node/server.js
+++ b/node/server.js
@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ var socketIORouter;
 var version = "";
 try
 {
-  var ref = fs.readFileSync("../.git/HEAD", "utf-8");
-  var refPath = "../.git/" + ref.substring(5, ref.indexOf("\n"));
+  var rootPath = path.normalize(__dirname + "/../")
+  var ref = fs.readFileSync(rootPath + ".git/HEAD", "utf-8");
+  var refPath = rootPath + ".git/" + ref.substring(5, ref.indexOf("\n"));
   version = fs.readFileSync(refPath, "utf-8");
   version = version.substring(0, 7);
   console.log("Your Etherpad Lite git version is " + version);