No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com> writes:

> Feel free to take this the patch as a base to do whatever you 
> please with it.

Then, I am thinking about a simple approach that will not involve
internet connection. See the attached.

Note that you, in fact, can fetch the latest tags from remote into
shallow clone. See
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66349002/get-latest-tag-git-describe-tags-when-repo-is-cloned-with-depth-1