Re: git-gui problem with version number.

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 27, 2007, 05:25 UTC
Message-ID: <85y7h25sg6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070727044634.GG20052@spearce.org>

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

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> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Hi, git-gui does not get along with the creativeness in git
>> versioning:
>
> What version of git-gui?  gitgui-0.7.5-67-g91464df and later have
> fixes to handle all of the fun cases in git versioning.  Like the
> one you have here.
>  
>> git-gui
>> Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.rc2.4.g726f9-dirty"
>>     while executing
>> "package vcompare $_git_version $vr"

The one coming with the mentioned version number. I suspect that this may be a matter of the Perl libraries being used: I experience this on an Ubuntu Dapper, but not on other (newer) systems compiled from the same source.

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