-/// engine_info() returns the full name of the current Stockfish version. This
-/// will be either "Stockfish <Tag> DD-MM-YY" (where DD-MM-YY is the date when
-/// the program was compiled) or "Stockfish <Version>", depending on whether
-/// Version is empty.
+/// engine_info() returns the full name of the current Stockfish version.
+/// For local dev compiles we try to append the commit sha and commit date
+/// from git if that fails only the local compilation date is set and "nogit" is specified:
+/// Stockfish dev-YYYYMMDD-SHA
+/// or
+/// Stockfish dev-YYYYMMDD-nogit
+///
+/// For releases (non dev builds) we only include the version number:
+/// Stockfish version