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 - 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