Re: git --version

"Paolo Ciarrocchi" [off-list ref] writes:

I'm confused by the following:
paolo@Italia:~/git$ ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
GIT_VERSION = 1.3.3.g2186

paolo@Italia:~/git$ git --version
git version 1.3.GIT

Why git --version is not reporting the "full" version number?

There is a bit of chicken and egg problem involved.  The build
procedure wants to have an already installed git to figure out
the "full" version number.  If you are bootstrapping, make clean
and rebuild after you install git once would give you a git
binary that knows what version it is.