From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git-gui problem with version number.
Message-ID: <86k5smnvhw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <85ejiu5r9r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>>> > Anyway, you can setup a build with the most recent 'stable
>>> > development' version of git-gui:
>>> >
>>> >   git checkout -b with-new-gitgui
>>> >   git pull -s subtree git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
>>> 
>>> Ok.  Would the necessity for this depend on the Tcl version?
>>
>> I thought all versions of Tcl did not understand the 'creative'
>> git version strings.  So I'm surprised to hear it works on one
>> system but not on another, even though you have the same version
>> of git and git-gui.
>
> I'll check once I am at work, but I am pretty sure that the versions
> are pretty much in synch.

Now that is funny.  I am pretty sure (or rather _have_ been pretty
sure) that I cloned the respective repositories with the same command.
Yet now both are up-to-date according to git-pull (and have identical
.config contents), and the first compiles version git version
1.5.3.rc2.41.gb47b1 while the second compiles version
1.5.3.rc3.7.gd58e-dirty.  Both have been cloned from git.git, the
second with

* master
  origin/HEAD
  origin/html
  origin/maint
  origin/man
  origin/master
  origin/next
  origin/pu
  origin/todo

and the first with
* master
  origin/HEAD
  origin/html
  origin/maint
  origin/man
  origin/master
  origin/next
  origin/pu
  origin/todo

On the one with the problematic version, I get
git-rev-list -2 origin/HEAD |git-name-rev --stdin
d58e8d34b019d435b424811c6f972910dfac6f55 (master)
1a44be9a0ff6fa623ff6061992f5ad1831dc7cab (master~1)

and on the other one I get
git-rev-list -2 origin/HEAD |git-name-rev --stdin
d58e8d34b019d435b424811c6f972910dfac6f55 (remotes/origin/HEAD)
1a44be9a0ff6fa623ff6061992f5ad1831dc7cab (remotes/origin/HEAD~1)

git-rev-list -2 master |git-name-rev --stdin
0d59d6cfd3ed2510a8e7d8c9fbc54c21133bc3a6 (master)
d58e8d34b019d435b424811c6f972910dfac6f55 (remotes/origin/HEAD)

So let me guess: the "dirty" in the version number comes about when
one has changes that are not in the upstream version, and it is this
string which confuses git-gui?

But then the version numbers are _so_ different.  I probably am
overlooking something.

-- 
David Kastrup