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

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