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Fix vc-git--program-version to support Git for macOS version string

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Message #8 received at 52172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Justin Schell <justinmschell <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 52172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#52172: Fix vc-git--program-version to support Git for macOS
 version string
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:47:22 +0100

Justin Schell <justinmschell <at> gmail.com> writes:

> `topic.fix-vc-git--program-version.ignore-trailing.patch` updates the
> regexp used to match numeric version strings that are a combination of
> digits and dots (starting with a digit), ignoring anything else that
> comes after. Any trailing dots are then stripped. This is more general
> than the current approach of supporting a numeric version string only,

I think this approach makes the most sense, but perhaps Dmitry has an
opinion here (added to the CCs).

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