version_info dies with git RC version

[sugi]

git.cmd.Git.version_info gets ValueError when it's running with git RC release.

I think it may be OK to just skip non-integer values of version.

sugi@tempest:~% git --version
git version 1.8.4.rc3
sugi@tempest:~% python                                                        
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan  2 2013, 13:56:14) 
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import git
>>> g = git.Git()
>>> g.version()
'git version 1.8.4.rc3'
>>> g.version_info
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "git/cmd.py", line 261, in version_info
    return self._version_info
  File "git/cmd.py", line 237, in __getattr__
    return LazyMixin.__getattr__(self, name)
  File "git/util.py", line 357, in __getattr__
    self._set_cache_(attr)
  File "git/cmd.py", line 244, in _set_cache_
    self._version_info = tuple(int(n) for n in version_numbers.split('.')[:4])
  File "git/cmd.py", line 244, in <genexpr>
    self._version_info = tuple(int(n) for n in version_numbers.split('.')[:4])
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'rc3'

[jschlather]

It looks like cmd.py expects a 4-tuple of integers. I also believe that git version 1.8.4 has been released, so upgrading git would also solve this issue. Other than that it looks like some sort of logic for dealing with release candidates would have to be added.

[sugi]

Yeah, I almost agree with you...
On the other hand, I wish that a library for git works without exception even if git RC release.

Anyway, I opened this issue to just report/notice. Please close this freely.

[Byron]

The fix was merged and made available in v0.3.2 on pypi.