Subject: Re: [PATCH] t4014: support Git version strings with spaces

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:42:24 +0900

René Scharfe <[email-masked]> writes:

> git --version reports its version with the prefix "git version ".
> Remove precisely this string instead of everything up to and including
> the first space to avoid butchering version strings that contain spaces.

"everything up to and including the last (rightmost) space"?

> This helps Apple's release of Git, which reports its version like this:
> "git version 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)".

Sounds sensible.

> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>
> ---
> Not an Apple patch.  They use sed(1) instead, which inadvertently hides
> the return code of git:
>
> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Git/blob/6b2f9bfe72d6d4b5c9bcc1c2d0236c026d321cba/src/git/t/t4014-format-patch.sh#L982
>
>  t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> index 2782b1fc18..21d6d0cd9e 100755
> --- a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> +++ b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ test_expect_success 'format-patch --ignore-if-in-upstream HEAD' '
>  
>  test_expect_success 'get git version' '
>  	git_version=$(git --version) &&
> -	git_version=${git_version##* }
> +	git_version=${git_version#git version }
>  '
>  
>  signature() {