[mythtv-users] mythfrontend --version shows Unknown

[Bill Meek]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 08:58 +0200, Yianni Vidalis wrote:
> My main MB/FE (openSuSE 11.2) shows Unknown as the myth version (both
> with mythfrontend --version and mythbackend --version).
>  ...
> Any ideas what could be missing? 

Hi;

Did you start with: git clone git://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git?

You could try: git describe --dirty.  That's what mythtv/version.sh
uses, and if it fails (which seems to be your case) it substitutes
Unknown.

Use: git branch to see what branch you're on.

Bill