# [PATCH] git-send-email: fix version string to be valid perl

1 messages from 2006-05-02 to 2006-05-02. Participants: Martin Langhoff.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4026

## Martin Langhoff, 2006-05-02 21:44

Subject: [PATCH] git-send-email: fix version string to be valid perl
Message-ID: <11466062762814-git-send-email-martin@catalyst.net.nz>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/11466062762814-git-send-email-martin%40catalyst.net.nz

```
This makes git-send-email easier to develop and debug, skipping the need
to `make git-send-email` every time.

---

 git-send-email.perl |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

1f6dd44e0c919196f9c3d5d617a64111004f24e5
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index ecfa347..2eb4f6c 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -291,6 +291,13 @@ sub send_message
 	my $to = join (",\n\t", @recipients);
 	@recipients = unique_email_list(@recipients,@cc);
 	my $date = strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z', localtime($time++));
+	my $gitversion = '@@GIT_VERSION@@';
+	if ($gitversion =~ m/..GIT_VERSION../) {
+	    $gitversion = `git --version`;
+	    chomp $gitversion;
+	    # keep only what's after the last space
+	    $gitversion =~ s/^.* //; 
+	}
 
 	my $header = "From: $from
 To: $to
@@ -299,7 +306,7 @@ Subject: $subject
 Reply-To: $from
 Date: $date
 Message-Id: $message_id
-X-Mailer: git-send-email @@GIT_VERSION@@
+X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion
 ";
 	$header .= "In-Reply-To: $reply_to\n" if $reply_to;
 
-- 
1.3.0.rc4.ge6bf-dirty

```