Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.48.1 and friends

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2025, 01:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo70827df.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <045701db66da$36a358a0$a3ea09e0$@nexbridge.com>

<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

> I will not be able to package this. The reason is that only official commits
> are
> permitted in the highly regulated customer base that I have to support.

Well, you probably want to be a bit more careful.

Think what *exactly* is *this* in "package this" in your message, for example.

Will it be the resulting checkout of "git clone --single" of that tag? Then you can go there and say "make", and as Dscho explained, what Dscho wrote in DEF_VER does not matter. The tag that points at that checked out commit is v2.47.2 and that is what resulting "git version" would say.

Will it be the tarball extract from the git-2.47.2.tar.gz that is available at https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/? Then you can go there and say "make", and what Dscho wrote in DEF_VER does not matter, either, because the official tarball contains the 'version' file that says "2.47.2" and that is the version used by the resulting "git version".