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Re: git-gui problem with version number.

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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Jul 27, 2007, 09:11 UTC
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
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> 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

A combination of rebasing and pushing made the difference go away and made git-gui work again. Nevertheless, it would be a good idea not to balk at the dirty version strings.

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David Kastrup
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