From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:47:42 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Take only numeric version components when computing $git_version Message-ID: <20110118104742.GA3279@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4D355966.7090707@debugon.org> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:12:06AM +0100, Mathias Lafeldt wrote: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > [...] > > So after building from a tarball generated with "git archive", "git version" > > produces v1.7.4-rc1, producing errors from gitk, but after building > > from the git repo or a tarball generated with "make dist", the version > > is v1.7.4.rc1 (which gitk accepts). > > > > Anders's fix looks good to me for robustness reasons anyway, so > > > > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder > > > > OK then. Junio? :) I'll pick it up. Paul.