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Re: [PATCH] t4014: support Git version strings with spaces

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 13, 2025, 08:42 UTC
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René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
> git --version reports its version with the prefix "git version ".
> Remove precisely this string instead of everything up to and including
> the first space to avoid butchering version strings that contain spaces.
"everything up to and including the last (rightmost) space"?
> This helps Apple's release of Git, which reports its version like this:
> "git version 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)".
Sounds sensible.
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> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> ---
> Not an Apple patch.  They use sed(1) instead, which inadvertently hides
> the return code of git:
>
> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Git/blob/6b2f9bfe72d6d4b5c9bcc1c2d0236c026d321cba/src/git/t/t4014-format-patch.sh#L982
>
>  t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> index 2782b1fc18..21d6d0cd9e 100755
> --- a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> +++ b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ test_expect_success 'format-patch --ignore-if-in-upstream HEAD' '
>  
>  test_expect_success 'get git version' '
>  	git_version=$(git --version) &&
> -	git_version=${git_version##* }
> +	git_version=${git_version#git version }
>  '
>  
>  signature() {
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