Provide/document a way how to find out the current version of GitPython

[ghost]

Because of the problem which I've described under 96c6ab4, I'd like to ask you to provide this information so that one can use the GitPython version to write a software which must be compatible with different GitPython versions.

[Byron]

If GitPython was installed from Pypi, you can access version information like so:

import git
git.__version__

If a version from GitHub is used, the said variable will hold the value git though, which would make it hard to make a decision unless one would be willing to assume it is the very latest dev version.

Do you find this information helpful ?

[ghost]

If you document that there is this variable and how to parse it so that on can test whether the current GitPython version is greater that given version, I'd be perfectly satisfied :-)

[PonteIneptique]

Sorry to join without being invited, but wouldn't if be possible with normal tools such as :

from distutils.version import LooseVersion, StrictVersion
LooseVersion("2.3.1") < LooseVersion("10.1.2")
StrictVersion("2.3.1") < StrictVersion("10.1.2")

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11887762/how-to-compare-version-style-strings

[Byron]

A new release was just made to pypi 😁 (see #298) !

[stsewd]

Agreed with #311 (comment), this just needs documentation