fails to get version from git repo

[Isaku Yamahata]

quantum run_tests.py fails because openstack.common.setup._get_version_from_git fails.
It is because quantum unit tests run under quantum/tests/unit instead of git root dir.
So the function should check parent dirs for .git.

ERROR: test_network_gateway_update (quantum.tests.unit.nicira.test_networkgw.NetworkGatewayExtensionTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "quantum/quantum/tests/unit/nicira/test_networkgw.py", line 70, in setUp
    config.parse(args=args)
  File "quantum/quantum/common/config.py", line 99, in parse
    version='%%prog %s' % quantum_version.release_string())
  File "quantum/quantum/openstack/common/version.py", line 63, in release_string
    self.release = self._get_version_from_pkg_resources()
  File "quantum/quantum/openstack/common/version.py", line 56, in _get_version_from_pkg_resources
    return setup.get_version(self.package)
  File "quantum/quantum/openstack/common/setup.py", line 334, in get_version
    raise Exception("Versioning for this project requires either an sdist"
Exception: Versioning for this project requires either an sdist tarball, or access to an upstream git repository.

[Isaku Yamahata (yamahata)]

The patch for oslo is available at
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22534/

[Isaku Yamahata (yamahata)]

The above patch is abondaned and the issue is being addressed by
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22181/

[Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)]

Both reviews seem to be abandoned?

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/22578

[Gary Kotton (garyk)]

The latest common code has been added.