From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:40:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GIT
Message-ID: <20070717214011.GU19073@lavos.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070717212103.11950.10363.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:14:06PM +0100, Julian Phillips wrote:
> 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