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Re: git --version

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 31, 2006, 20:08 UTC
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On Wed, 31 May 2006, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
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> 
> Thanks to loops on #git for asking me to do the following test:
> 
> <PaoloC> paolo@Italia:~/git$ sudo ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
> <PaoloC> GIT_VERSION = 1.3.GIT
> <PaoloC> paolo@Italia:~/git$ ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
> <PaoloC> GIT_VERSION = 1.3.3.g2186
> 
> I don't know why it's happening...

Heh. You don't have git in your PATH as root. So as root you don't know what version of git you have ;)

		Linus
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