Re: [PATCH] Change GIT-VERSION-GEN to call git commands with "git" not "git-".

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Sean <seanlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> GIT-VERSION-GEN can incorrectly return a default version of
> "v1.3.GIT" because it tries to execute git commands using the
> "git-cmd" format that expects all git commands to be in the $PATH.
> Convert these to  "git cmd" format so that a proper answer is
> returned even when the git commands have been moved out of the
> $PATH and into a $gitexecdir.

IIRC, the reason we spelled it as "git-describe"
with a dash is ancient git wrapper said "not a git command" when
given "describe" which it did not understand without failing.

I think it has been long enough since we introduced "git describe",
so this would be OK. 

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