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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#     Copyright © 1991-2020 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. Distributed under
+# the Terms of Use in http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html.
+#
+# Creates JSON data under ./cldr-json in this directory.
+
+. ./cldr-config.sh
+if [ -x ./local-config.sh ];
+then
+    echo "Using local-config.sh"
+    . ./local-config.sh
+fi
+
+function explain_repo()
+{
+    git rev-parse --short  HEAD
+    git describe HEAD
+}
+
+echo "* cldr-json info"
+echo "- DATA: unicode-org/cldr-staging: " $(cd ${INDATA}; explain_repo)
+echo "- TOOL: unicode-org/cldr: " $(cd ${CLDR_DIR}; explain_repo)
+echo "- SCRIPT: unicode-org/cldr-json: " $(explain_repo)
+