'seen' branch identifies as v2.48.0

Hi Junio,

When building git from tonight's seen branch, it claims to be version 2.48.0, thus:

  $ pwd
  /home/ramsay/git
  $ 
  
  $ ./git version
  git version 2.48.0
  $ 
  
  $ git describe
  v2.48.0-246-g568b3e75e9
  $ 
  
  $ git log -1
  commit 568b3e75e9cc62870cace4e290d7c2bd3241e3e5 (HEAD -> seen, origin/seen)
  Merge: 1a6fedb381 20d77dd0a5
  Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
  Date:   Mon Jan 13 10:20:35 2025 -0800
  
      Merge branch 'ps/zlib-ng' into seen
      
      * ps/zlib-ng:
        compat/zlib: allow use of zlib-ng as backend
        git-zlib: cast away potential constness of `next_in` pointer
        compat/zlib: provide stubs for `deflateSetHeader()`
        compat/zlib: provide `deflateBound()` shim centrally
        git-compat-util: move include of "compat/zlib.h" into "git-zlib.h"
        compat: introduce new "zlib.h" header
        git-compat-util: drop `z_const` define
        compat: drop `uncompress2()` compatibility shim
  $ 
  
  $ cat GIT-VERSION
  v2.48.0
  $ 
 
An additional wrinkle on cygwin is that, after having built git (or more
precisely git-version.exe) then 'make sparse' and 'make hdr-check' spew to
stderr, like:

  /home/ramsay/git/GIT-VERSION-GEN: line 27: warning: command substitution: \
    ignored null byte in input 

which is caused by GIT-VERSION, git-version and git-version.exe being 'seen' as the same file on cygwin (case insensitive filessytem + cygwin 'magic'):

  $ ls -l GIT-VERSION
  -rwxr-xr-x 140 ramsay None 21M Jan 14 00:05 GIT-VERSION*
  $ 
 
  $ file GIT-VERSION
  GIT-VERSION: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64, for MS Windows, 19 sections
  $ 
 
  $ ls -l *version*
  -rwxr-xr-x 140 ramsay None  21M Jan 14 00:05 git-version.exe*
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None 3.4K Jan 13 23:49 version.c
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None  619 Jan 13 23:49 version.h
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None   50 Jan 14 00:24 version.hcc
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None  21K Jan 14 00:13 version.o
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None    0 Jan 14 00:13 version.sp
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None 5.4K Dec 24 14:03 versioncmp.c
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None  118 Sep  8 21:39 versioncmp.h
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None   53 Jan 14 00:24 versioncmp.hcc
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None  15K Jan 13 23:59 versioncmp.o
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None    0 Jan 14 00:13 versioncmp.sp
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None  199 Jan 14 00:13 version-def.h
  -rw-r--r--   1 ramsay None  207 Dec 16 19:08 version-def.h.in
  $ 

I normally like to find solutions before posting problems to the list, but unfortunately I don't have time to look into this at the moment. Sorry!

Just a heads up.

ATB, Ramsay Jones