Nowhere is a config.h used, so this is wasted effort and performs unnecessary string shuffling in Meson, then pointless file I/O.
More impactfully, this adds an arbitrary dependency on building the project from a git clone instead of a meson dist produced release tarball, if git is installed. There are a couple possible approaches to making this better, for example checking if .git exists in the root of the repository before trying to run git. But it turns out to be totally unnecessary, since the parsed information is never, ultimately, used. So let's just drop this code entirely, instead of trying to make it run more effectively.
Nowhere is a config.h used, so this is wasted effort and performs unnecessary string shuffling in Meson, then pointless file I/O.
More impactfully, this adds an arbitrary dependency on building the project from a git clone instead of a
meson distproduced release tarball, if git is installed. There are a couple possible approaches to making this better, for example checking if.gitexists in the root of the repository before trying to run git. But it turns out to be totally unnecessary, since the parsed information is never, ultimately, used. So let's just drop this code entirely, instead of trying to make it run more effectively.