"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, git-gui does not get along with the creativeness in git >> versioning: > > What version of git-gui? gitgui-0.7.5-67-g91464df and later have > fixes to handle all of the fun cases in git versioning. Like the > one you have here. > >> git-gui >> Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.rc2.4.g726f9-dirty" >> while executing >> "package vcompare $_git_version $vr" The one coming with the mentioned version number. I suspect that this may be a matter of the Perl libraries being used: I experience this on an Ubuntu Dapper, but not on other (newer) systems compiled from the same source. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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