git-version-gen: don't require that .git/ be in the current dir

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 2010-10-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
+       git-version-gen: don't require that .git/ be in the current dir
+       * build-aux/git-version-gen: Adjust this script so that it works
+       when run from any working directory beneath the top-level .git/-
+       containing directory.  Inspired by a patch from Giusseppe Scrivano,
+       http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/21843/focus=21847
+
        test-select: avoid warn_unused_result warnings
        * tests/test-select.c: Include "macros.h".
        ASSERT that each call to read, write, and pipe succeeds.