"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.
On 5/31/06, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
"Paolo Ciarrocchi" [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
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.
Either I didn't understand your answer or something is wrong with my
git installation:
paolo@Italia:~$ cd git/
paolo@Italia:~/git$ git --version
git version 1.3.GIT
paolo@Italia:~/git$ make >/dev/null
paolo@Italia:~/git$ sudo make install >/dev/null
Password:
GIT_VERSION = 1.3.GIT
paolo@Italia:~/git$ git --version
git version 1.3.GIT
paolo@Italia:~/git$
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