From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:58:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git --version
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30605311158n9d669dgd6c392ee8d194b78@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vu077ywmw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 5/31/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm confused by the following:
> > paolo@Italia:~/git$ ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
> > GIT_VERSION = 1.3.3.g2186
> >
> > paolo@Italia:~/git$ git --version
> > git version 1.3.GIT
> >
> > Why git --version is not reporting the "full" version number?
>
> There is a bit of chicken and egg problem involved.  The build
> procedure wants to have an already installed git to figure out
> the "full" version number.  If you are bootstrapping, make clean
> and rebuild after you install git once would give you a git
> binary that knows what version it is.

Either I didn't understand your answer or something is wrong with my
git installation:

paolo@Italia:~$ cd git/
paolo@Italia:~/git$ git --version
git version 1.3.GIT
paolo@Italia:~/git$ make >/dev/null
paolo@Italia:~/git$ sudo make install >/dev/null
Password:
GIT_VERSION = 1.3.GIT
paolo@Italia:~/git$ git --version
git version 1.3.GIT
paolo@Italia:~/git$


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