On 5/31/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote: > "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> 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. 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$ -- Paolo http://paolociarrocchi.googlepages.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Jun 01 04:59:37 2006
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