Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:39:59AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> You are right about "we may be depending on what 2.1 has other than >> -A". Will apply as-is. >> >> Thanks, both. >> >> The primary reason I asked about '\[-A\]' was what will happen if >> somebody uses 2.2. > > Yes, it would be nice to be able to easily check >2.1. GNU expr seems to > handle this ok: > > $ expr 2.2 '>' 2.1 > 1 > $ expr 2.0 '>' 2.1 > 0 > > but POSIX seems to mention only integers and string comparison (though > if all are of the form "x.y", string comparison works). I have no idea > how portable this is. Yeah, but it is the same thing -- we know 2.1 works, we do not know if 2.2 will break things for us ;-) We'll worry about it when somebody with 2.2 complains. - 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
