From b38ce202e8de807976440f5b1134f028736bb612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hiddenalpha.ch
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:13:35 +0200
Subject: Fix build instructions

---
 README.md     | 3 ++-
 src/bulk_ln.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0dd9bc0..490aa0d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ create many links.
 
 ```sh
 git init -b none
-git fetch --depth=1  http://git.hiddenalpha.ch/bulk-ln.git  master:master
+git fetch --depth=99  http://git.hiddenalpha.ch/bulk-ln.git  master:master
+git fetch --depth=1  http://git.hiddenalpha.ch/bulk-ln.git  --tags
 git checkout master
 lua  src/bulk_ln.c
 ./bulk-ln  --help
diff --git a/src/bulk_ln.c b/src/bulk_ln.c
index f3cda22..a954100 100644
--- a/src/bulk_ln.c
+++ b/src/bulk_ln.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ do
 		\
 		&& if test -z "$PROJECT_VERSION" ;then true \
 			&& tag="$(git tag|grep -E '^v'|sed -E 's,^v,,'|sort -V|tail -n1)" \
-			&& cnt="$(git rev-list --count "v${tag:?}"..HEAD)" \
+			&& cnt="$(git rev-list --count "v${tag?}"..HEAD 2>/dev/null||true)" \
 			&& hsh="$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" \
 			&& if test -n "$tag" -a -n "$cnt" -a -n "$hsh" ;then true \
 				&& PROJECT_VERSION="${tag:?}-${cnt:?}-g${hsh:?}" \
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