From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:36:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: set actual revdate for manpages
Message-ID: <xmqqv8hyqsc6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <64397d3d67d21_5e3ce294a6@chronos.notmuch>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

>> Are we sure historical GIT_VERSION strings never had a SP in it?
>> I would be very surprised if we did, but the correctness of the
>> approach depends on that assumption.
>
> Why would that matter?

Ah, that is true.  What I should have worried more about was the
distribution package maintainers who may set their own version by
writing it in the "version" file themselves.

Thanks.