Add compiled date to git --version output?

From: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2009, 04:17 UTC
Message-ID: <544dda350909172117r44761577m11e7d30a1a5d0c91@mail.gmail.com>

Sometimes I wanted to know how outdated git is on my system.

Coming up with a script to parse "git --version" output to get the SHA1, and compare that to master's SHA1 seemed a little overkill compared to this:

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 294337e..bc83491 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -361,6 +361,9 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)

 int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
-       printf("git version %s\n", git_version_string);
+       printf("git version %s compiled %s %s\n",
+                       git_version_string,
+                       __DATE__,
+                       __TIME__);
        return 0;
 }

With this, git --version gives:

        git version 1.6.5.rc1.19.g8426.dirty compiled Sep 18 2009 12:03:29

Thoughts?

Nazri