"Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx> 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. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html