Re: [PATCH] Make list of features auto-managed.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 22, 2007, 03:58 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4pl0bpxq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070622032502.GA17393@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> Here's the problem though: `git-blame -w` will be supported
> in Git 1.5.3 and later, we all know this.  But Git doesn't.
> Ask git-describe what version `master` and `next` are; its
> v1.5.2.2-249 and v1.5.2.2-1050.
>
> So tell me, how can git-gui know that Git 1.5.2.2.249 is OK, and
> 1.5.3 is OK, but 1.5.2.3 isn't?

You don't. Although 1.5.2.2.249 may have it, you do not enable it for that version.

That is what "1.5.3 or later" implies. And in 6 weeks that little distinction does not matter.

Pretty simple.