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Problem running git-gui

From
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date
Jul 17, 2007, 11:48 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0707171244080.13359@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

I have a machine on which git was installed from a tarball created by running git-archive on master (so a 1.5.3ish version).

When I try running git-gui I get an error message:
'Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.GIT"'

followed by what I assume is a code snippet where it failed (I wouldn't know tcl if it hit me with a large brick).

Is this expected? driver error? or maybe a bug?
-- 
Julian

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