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Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GIT

From
Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date
Jul 17, 2007, 21:40 UTC
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<20070717214011.GU19073@lavos.net>
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<20070717212103.11950.10363.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:14:06PM +0100, Julian Phillips wrote:
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> 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"'

Can we handle versions with '-dirty' at the end as well, or is this ill-advised? For some reason when I build my hacked-up personal debian packages it usually winds up:

:; git --version git version 1.5.3.GIT-dirty

and I haven't bothered to find out why.
-bcd
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Message 4 of 13 in “Problem running git-gui”
  1. Julian PhillipsJul 17, 2007
  2. Thomas GlanzmannJul 17, 2007
  3. git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GITJulian Phillips, Jul 17, 2007
  4. Brian DowningJul 17, 2007
  5. Brian DowningJul 17, 2007
  6. Jason SewallJul 17, 2007
  7. Shawn O. PearceJul 18, 2007
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 17, 2007
  9. Shawn O. PearceJul 18, 2007
  10. Shawn O. PearceJul 18, 2007
  11. Martin LanghoffJul 18, 2007
  12. Shawn O. PearceJul 18, 2007
  13. Julian PhillipsJul 18, 2007

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