revert git describe --always --tags for extensions because it seems to be causing issues

            try:

                self.status = 'unknown'

                self.remote = next(repo.remote().urls, None)

                self.commit_date = repo.head.commit.committed_date

                commit = repo.head.commit

                self.commit_date = commit.committed_date

                if repo.active_branch:

                    self.branch = repo.active_branch.name

                self.commit_hash = repo.head.commit.hexsha

                self.version = repo.git.describe("--always", "--tags")  # compared to `self.commit_hash[:8]` this takes about 30% more time total but since we run it in parallel we don't care

                self.commit_hash = commit.hexsha

                self.version = self.commit_hash[:8]

            except Exception as ex:

                print(f"Failed reading extension data from Git repository ({self.name}): {ex}", file=sys.stderr)