dmd git master version

[Steven Schveighoffer]

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?
> 
> 
> T
> 

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.

-Steve