From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing)
To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GIT
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:40:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717214011.GU19073@lavos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717212103.11950.10363.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:14:06PM +0100, Julian Phillips wrote:
> The git-gui version check doesn't handle versions of the form
> n.n.n.GIT which you can get by installing from an tarball produced by
> git-archive.
>
> Without this change you get an error of the form:
> 'Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.GIT"'
Can we handle versions with '-dirty' at the end as well, or is this
ill-advised? For some reason when I build my hacked-up personal debian
packages it usually winds up:
:; git --version
git version 1.5.3.GIT-dirty
and I haven't bothered to find out why.
-bcd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 11:48 Problem running git-gui Julian Phillips
2007-07-17 12:04 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-17 21:14 ` [PATCH] git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GIT Julian Phillips
2007-07-17 21:40 ` Brian Downing [this message]
2007-07-17 21:45 ` Brian Downing
2007-07-17 21:49 ` Jason Sewall
2007-07-18 1:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-17 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 1:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-18 1:51 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-18 2:32 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-07-18 2:54 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-18 10:10 ` Julian Phillips
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