Merge branch 'master' into js/diff-ni

* master: (201 commits)
  Documentation: link in 1.5.0.2 material to the top documentation page.
  Documentation: document remote.<name>.tagopt
  GIT 1.5.0.2
  git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
  Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
  diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
  merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
  merge-index: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
  diff --cached: give more sensible error message when HEAD is yet to be created.
  Update tests to use test-chmtime
  Add test-chmtime: a utility to change mtime on files
  Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
  Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
  rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
  rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
  Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
  diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
  Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
  Limit filename for format-patch
  core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
  ...

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/git-gui/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/git-gui/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 9966126da2..2741c1e14c 100755
--- a/git-gui/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/git-gui/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ tree_search ()
 	done
 }
 
+# Always use the tarball version file if found, just
+# in case we are somehow contained in a larger git
+# repository that doesn't actually track our state.
+# (At least one package manager is doing this.)
+#
 # We may be a subproject, so try looking for the merge
 # commit that supplied this directory content if we are
 # not at the toplevel.  We probably will always be the
@@ -27,10 +32,13 @@ tree_search ()
 # that fact.
 #
 # If we are at the toplevel or the merge assumption fails
-# try looking for a gitgui-* tag, or fallback onto the
-# distributed version file.
+# try looking for a gitgui-* tag.
 
-if prefix="$(git rev-parse --show-prefix 2>/dev/null)"
+if test -f version &&
+   VN=$(cat version)
+then
+	: happy
+elif prefix="$(git rev-parse --show-prefix 2>/dev/null)"
    test -n "$prefix" &&
    head=$(git rev-list --max-count=1 HEAD -- . 2>/dev/null) &&
    tree=$(git rev-parse --verify "HEAD:$prefix" 2>/dev/null) &&
@@ -48,9 +56,6 @@ elif VN=$(git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
    esac
 then
 	VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/^gitgui-//;s/-/./g');
-elif test -f version
-then
-	VN=$(cat version) || VN="$DEF_VER"
 else
 	VN="$DEF_VER"
 fi