Hi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ok, then let's do this. Our tarballs do have version file, and if the > upperlevel Makefile wants to set a different version it can drop > 'version' file before descending into us. Okay. But I started hacking git by getting it, compiling it, doing "git init", a "git fetch origin", "git read-tree HEAD" and "git update-index --refresh". In that case, .git is there, but also the file "version". But that's too obscure a case as to care about, so I am okay with your patch. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: 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