From: Philip Oakley Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:27:26 GMT Subject: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] Doc: State the exact git version string Message-ID: <1365949646-1988-3-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> In-Reply-To: <1365949646-1988-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> Provide the regular expression that matches the 'git --version' strings. Scripts in the wild, including 'git gui', check the git version. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley --- Should the string be described by a regular expression? How to format the regular expression for asciidocs - it doesn't get made correctly - I'm not sure what special magic incantation is needed here. Documentation/git.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 7efaa59..627e462 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -365,6 +365,10 @@ OPTIONS ------- --version:: Prints the Git suite version that the 'git' program came from. + The version string is a single line that matches the extended + regular expression + '^git version [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+.*' + and is less than 80 characters. --help:: Prints the synopsis and a list of the most commonly used -- 1.8.1.msysgit.1