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

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:40:12PM -0500, Brian Downing wrote:

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.

D'oh, now I know why.  I'm trying git to keep my home directory config
stuff versioned, so GIT-VERSION-GEN, failing to find a .git directory
in my tar export, digs down and finds my home directory one instead.

I take it this means that keeping your home directory under git
/directly/ as I have chosen to do is a bad idea...

-bcd