Related: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/julia-users/LBb08MDWu4U
On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 10:28:29 AM UTC+1, Arin Basu wrote: > > Hi All, > > As I wrote earlier, yesterday I offered a workshop on introducing Julia at > my university. After the workshop, one of the attendees asked me this > question: > > " It turns out that Julia version 0.4.1 has git packaged with it: > > *shell> **which git* > /Applications/Julia-0.4.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/git-core/git > > *shell> **git --version* > git version 1.8.5.6 > > And from the terminal command line: > > jm500:~ > $/Applications/Julia-0.4.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/git-core/git > --version > git version 1.8.5.6 > > Either a mistake, which I’d think unlikely, or there is a deliberate use > of an old version of git?" > > What may be the reason of including an older version of git in Julia? > Would greatly appreciate if you can provide some words to the wise. > > Best, > Arin >
