Update notifier: avoid false positives when gh is built from source #2812
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When gh was built from source, the version number will look something
like this since it's taken from `git describe`:
v1.4.0-34-g{SHA}
When compared as semver against `v1.4.0`, the latter version is falsely
reported as newer. This is because the output of `git describe` wasn't
meant to be interpreted as semver.
The solution is to translate the `git describe` string to faux-semver so
it can be safely compared with the version reported from the server.
Fixes this case:
A new release of gh is available: v1.4.0-41-g2f9e4cb1 → v1.4.0
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v1.4.0
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When gh was built from source, the version number will look something like this since it's taken from
git describe:When compared as semver against
v1.4.0, the latter version is falsely reported as newer. This is because the output ofgit describewasn't meant to be interpreted as semver.The solution is to translate the
git describestring to faux-semver so it can be safely compared with the version reported from the server.Fixes this case: