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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/updatemanpages.pl9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/updatemanpages.pl b/scripts/updatemanpages.pl
index cf26d4ffe..6a58dbd42 100755
--- a/scripts/updatemanpages.pl
+++ b/scripts/updatemanpages.pl
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
# | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
# \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
#
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
#
# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -235,6 +235,13 @@ if(!$curlver) {
printargs();
}
+# check to see that the git command works, it requires git 2.6 something
+my $gitcheck = `git log -1 --date="format:%B %d, %Y" $dirlist[0] 2>/dev/null`;
+if(length($gitcheck) < 1) {
+ print "git version too old or $dirlist[0] is a bad argument\n";
+ exit;
+}
+
# Look in each directory.
my $dir_handle;