[ovirt-devel] VDSM fails 'autogen.sh' when shallow cloning - is that expected?

Cloning VDSM with the following command: git clone -b master --depth 1 git://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm Which works, but then I can't run ./autogen.sh succesfully: mini@ykaul-mini:/tmp/github/vdsmshallow$ ./autogen.sh |less fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line. configure: error: package version not defined As the difference is 1:10 in data size and I only wish to work on the tip, this could be very useful to me. Any ideas?