From d0fbb4d6c28d37410d55f183ac0221d2e3e78ac3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Seeders <brian.seeders@elastic.co>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 17:00:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use REPO_ROOT to set working directory and absolute paths

---
 src/dev/build/lib/version_info.ts | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/dev/build/lib/version_info.ts b/src/dev/build/lib/version_info.ts
index c3ce209e7616a5..9ad20b4a6935bb 100644
--- a/src/dev/build/lib/version_info.ts
+++ b/src/dev/build/lib/version_info.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 
 import execa from 'execa';
 import fs from 'fs';
+import { join } from 'path';
+import { REPO_ROOT } from '@kbn/utils';
 import { getBuildNumber } from './get_build_number';
 
 interface Options {
@@ -28,8 +30,8 @@ export async function getVersionInfo({ isRelease, versionQualifier, pkg }: Optio
     isRelease ? '' : '-SNAPSHOT'
   );
 
-  const buildSha = fs.existsSync('.git')
-    ? (await execa('git', ['rev-parse', 'HEAD'])).stdout
+  const buildSha = fs.existsSync(join(REPO_ROOT, '.git'))
+    ? (await execa('git', ['rev-parse', 'HEAD'], { cwd: REPO_ROOT })).stdout
     : process.env.GIT_COMMIT || process.env.BUILDKITE_COMMIT || '';
 
   return {