Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GIT

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> > 'Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.GIT"'
> > 
> > followed by what I assume is a code snippet where it failed (I wouldn't 
> > know tcl if it hit me with a large brick).
> > 
> > Is this expected? driver error? or maybe a bug?

Bug in git-gui.  *sigh*
 
> Well, whichever it is, this seems to fix it for me ... with the proviso that I
> still no nothing about tcl.  I am also not sure if it is correct to do the
> patch against the git repo?
> 
>  git-gui/git-gui.sh |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Many thanks for the fix.  I was about to do this myself but found
your message in my inbox instead.  Happy days.

Fortunately git-am -3 does wonders, and it didn't matter:

  $ git am -s -3 jp
  
  Applying git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GIT
  
  error: git-gui/git-gui.sh: does not exist in index
  Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
  Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge...
  Renamed git-gui/git-gui.sh => git-gui.sh
  Wrote tree 1909733645c3bd167b1b28a98ee66c0a95f357f1
  Committed: 91464dfb102d6143182d8f312b68486e9dceb103

I've extolled the virtues of -3 and merge-recursive's rename detector
before on the mailing list, for exactly this reason.  Despite the
patch coming in with the wrong path it still applies just fine.

-- 
Shawn.