From: Julian Phillips Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:14:06 GMT Subject: [PATCH] git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GIT Message-ID: <20070717212103.11950.10363.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> In-Reply-To: The git-gui version check doesn't handle versions of the form n.n.n.GIT which you can get by installing from an tarball produced by git-archive. Without this change you get an error of the form: 'Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.GIT"' Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips --- > I have a machine on which git was installed from a tarball created by > running git-archive on master (so a 1.5.3ish version). > > When I try running git-gui I get an error message: > > 'Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.GIT"' > > followed by what I assume is a code snippet where it failed (I wouldn't > know tcl if it hit me with a large brick). > > Is this expected? driver error? or maybe a bug? Well, whichever it is, this seems to fix it for me ... with the proviso that I still no nothing about tcl. I am also not sure if it is correct to do the patch against the git repo? git-gui/git-gui.sh | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh index 2077261..f8b1f10 100755 --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh +++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh @@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ if {![regsub {^git version } $_git_version {} _git_version]} { } regsub {\.[0-9]+\.g[0-9a-f]+$} $_git_version {} _git_version regsub {\.rc[0-9]+$} $_git_version {} _git_version +regsub {\.GIT$} $_git_version {} _git_version proc git-version {args} { global _git_version -- 1.5.2.2