From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:00:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUCNE] GIT 1.1.0
Message-ID: <43C31551.5010202@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7j99exkc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> lamikr <lamikr@cc.jyu.fi> writes:
> 
>>Did you mean that things should work after 1.1.1 is released?
>>I tried to fresh build and install of 1.1.0 on top of the previous
>>1.1.0 build but "git --version" is still displaying me "git version 1.0.GIT"
> 
> You need to build from a git repository for these automated
> version numbers to work, and this will *not* change post 1.1.1.
> 

Tarballs really should work as-is... the easy way to deal with that is 
to have the tarball make script generate a version file which isn't part 
of the git tree.

I'll send a patch under a separate cover.

	-hpa