Re: git-gui problem with version number.

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 27, 2007, 05:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20070727053627.GI20052@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <85y7h25sg6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Hi, git-gui does not get along with the creativeness in git
> >> versioning:
> >
> > What version of git-gui?  gitgui-0.7.5-67-g91464df and later have
> > fixes to handle all of the fun cases in git versioning.  Like the
> > one you have here.
> >  
> >> git-gui
> >> Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.rc2.4.g726f9-dirty"
> >>     while executing
> >> "package vcompare $_git_version $vr"
> 
> The one coming with the mentioned version number.  I suspect that this
> may be a matter of the Perl libraries being used: I experience this on
> an Ubuntu Dapper, but not on other (newer) systems compiled from the
> same source.

Ah. Junio hasn't pulled those version numbering fixes from me yet. Because I haven't asked him to pull in a while. That explains that.

There's no Perl involved in git-gui, except for the Perl in an underlying Git command it might invoke. So perhaps you were talking about Tcl above?

Anyway, you can setup a build with the most recent 'stable development' version of git-gui:

  git checkout -b with-new-gitgui
  git pull -s subtree git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git

That's really all Junio does. Although I think he does actually try to test it briefly before pushing a final release out to the public. Just to make sure Git hasn't broken anything really obvious in git-gui. ;-)

-- 
Shawn.