From bd9e99d6988f969abcf5e125f87daa28ab36a6c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rene Cannao <rene@proxysql.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:56:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix GIT_VERSION assignment to preserve version string in
 recursive make calls

---
 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 374dbbd08..bea56fa49 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ ifeq ($(PROXYSQL31),1)
 endif
 
 # Only increment version at the top-level make to avoid double-incrementing in recursive makes
-GIT_VERSION := $(GIT_VERSION_BASE)
+GIT_VERSION ?= $(GIT_VERSION_BASE)
 ifeq ($(MAKELEVEL),0)
 # Normalize GIT_VERSION by stripping leading 'v' for arithmetic
 GIT_VERSION_NORM := $(shell echo "$(GIT_VERSION_BASE)" | sed 's/^v//')