dmd git master version

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 04:31:20PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 10/12/22 3:04 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > The current official release of dmd is 2.100.2, but when I build from
> > the git repo, `dmd --version` says:
> > 
> > 	DMD64 D Compiler v2.098.1-10051-g61d7d56a0
> > 	Copyright (C) 1999-2022 by The D Language Foundation, All Rights Reserved written by Walter Bright
> > 
> > Why is it still reporting 2.098.1?  Isn't that like several releases
> > behind already?
[...]
> That looks like a git version tag + some commit.
> 
> When you pull the remote branch in, do you specify --tags? You may not
> be acquiring all the git tags into your local repo.
[...]

You mean it acquires the version number from git tags??  That explains a
lot. :-D


T

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