Merge branch 'trs/remove-nonsense-code'

server.js

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import argparse from 'argparse';
 import http from 'http';
 import * as utils from './src/utils/index.js';
 
-const version = utils.getGitHash();
 const nextstrainAbout = `
   Nextstrain is an open-source project to harness the scientific and public
   health potential of pathogen genome data.
@@ -11,9 +10,8 @@ const nextstrainAbout = `
   See https://github.com/nextstrain/nextstrain.org for more.
 `;
 const parser = new argparse.ArgumentParser({
-  version,
   addHelp: true,
-  description: `Nextstrain.org server version ${version}`,
+  description: `Nextstrain.org server`,
   epilog: nextstrainAbout
 });
 parser.addArgument('--verbose', {action: "storeTrue", help: "verbose server logging"});

src/utils/index.js

@@ -1,22 +1,8 @@
-import fs from 'fs';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 import fetch from 'node-fetch';
 import { NotFound } from '../httpErrors.js';
 
 
-const getGitHash = () => {
-  /* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34518389/get-hash-of-most-recent-git-commit-in-node */
-  try {
-    const rev = fs.readFileSync('.git/HEAD').toString();
-    if (rev.indexOf(':') === -1) {
-      return rev;
-    }
-    return fs.readFileSync('.git/').toString() + rev.substring(5).replace(/\n/, '');
-  } catch (err) {
-    return "unknown";
-  }
-};
-
 const verbose = (msg, ...rest) => {
   if (global.verbose) {
     console.log(chalk.greenBright(`[verbose]\t${msg}`), ...rest);
@@ -130,7 +116,6 @@ const normalizeHeaders = (headers) => {
 };
 
 export {
-  getGitHash,
   verbose,
   log,
   warn,