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diff --git a/tools/workspace_status.py b/tools/workspace_status.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright (C) 2020, David Ostrovsky <david@ostrovsky.org> and others
+#
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+# terms of the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
+# http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+# This script will be run by bazel when the build process starts to
+# generate key-value information that represents the status of the
+# workspace. The output should be like
+#
+# KEY1 VALUE1
+# KEY2 VALUE2
+#
+# If the script exits with non-zero code, it's considered as a failure
+# and the output will be discarded.
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+ROOT = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+while not os.path.exists(os.path.join(ROOT, 'WORKSPACE')):
+    ROOT = os.path.dirname(ROOT)
+CMD = ['git', 'describe', '--always', '--match', 'v[0-9].*', '--dirty']
+
+
+def revision(directory, parent):
+    try:
+        os.chdir(directory)
+        return subprocess.check_output(CMD).strip().decode("utf-8")
+    except OSError as err:
+        print('could not invoke git: %s' % err, file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(1)
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as err:
+        # ignore "not a git repository error" to report unknown version
+        return None
+    finally:
+        os.chdir(parent)
+
+
+print("STABLE_BUILD_JGIT_LABEL %s" % revision(ROOT, ROOT))