Mofigy the helper function get_versions to return the version number of

the application when manage under git.

languages/fr-fr.py

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 'select publications with a given category code': 'select publications with a given category code',
 'teams': 'équipes',
 'undefined': 'undéfini',
+'unknown': 'unknown',
 'url': 'url',
 'value already in database or empty': 'value already in database or empty',
 }

modules/plugin_dbui/helper.py

@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 """
 
-import re
 import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+
 from gluon import current
 from gluon.http import HTTP
 from gluon.validators import (IS_DATE_IN_RANGE,
@@ -17,6 +20,8 @@ from gluon.validators import (IS_DATE_IN_RANGE,
                               IS_MATCH,
                               IS_LENGTH)
 
+# basic command
+GIT = '/usr/bin/git'
 
 # A field name can only contains [a_zA-Z0-9_] according to web2py
 table_field = re.compile(r'[\w_]+\.[\w_]+') 
@@ -340,8 +345,23 @@ def get_versions():
     # web2py
     li = [str(el) for el in current.request.env.web2py_version if isinstance(el, int)]
     web2py = '.'.join(li)
+    
+    # version of the application
+    myapp = current.T("unknown")
+    
+    if os.path.exists(GIT):
+        ref_path = os.getcwd()
+        os.chdir(server_path)
+    
+        fi = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
+        subprocess.call(["git", "describe"], stdout=fi)
+        fi.seek(0)
+        myapp = fi.read().strip('\n')
+        fi.close()
         
-    return dict(dbui=dbui, extjs=extjs, mathjax=mathjax, web2py=web2py)
+        os.chdir(ref_path)
+
+    return dict(dbui=dbui, extjs=extjs, mathjax=mathjax, web2py=web2py, myapp=myapp)
 
 
 def get_where_query(table):