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Finding out the version of git on remote server

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I am looking for the git command on my local machine which i can run to find out the version of git running on the remote server? If this is even possible.

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rudimenter Avatar asked Nov 04 '14 15:11

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Modern git servers (beginning in git 1.7.12.1) will return their version information in the capabilities negotiation in the protocol. While it's accurate that there's no git command that you can run locally, you can simply query the git server for the information and a recent version will provide the version number.

You can use a web client to request:

<repository url>/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

And examine the first line for the agent= report.

For example, against CodePlex:

% curl https://git01.codeplex.com/gittf/info/refs\?service=git-upload-pack 000000bd43569b9f6f29136b6544809eacd2417a308f9341 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag multi_ack_detailed no-done agent=git/1.8.4.msysgit.0

Which indicates that CodePlex is using Git for Windows 1.8.4 (git/1.8.4.msysgit.0).

Or against GitHub:

% curl https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git/info/refs\?service=git-upload-pack 000000f83f8d005a82b39c504220d65b6a6aa696c3b1a9c4 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag multi_ack_detailed no-done symref=HEAD:refs/heads/master agent=git/2:2.1.1~peff-bare-reflogs-fetch-616-gc016f98 ... ref information removed ...

Indicating that GitHub is using a custom git version: git/2:2.1.1~peff-bare-reflogs-fetch-616-gc016f98.

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