[LEDE-DEV] is there a reason not to use "git --version" to check for git?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  just noticed the following in include/prereq-build.mk, which checks
for an acceptable version of git:

$(eval $(call SetupHostCommand,git,Please install Git (git-core) >= 1.7.12.2, \
        git --exec-path | xargs -I % -- grep -q -- --recursive %/git-submodule))


  is there a reason that makefile doesn't just invoke "git --version"
like most of the command checks in that makefile to test for the
version of git?

rday

p.s. this is a leadup to another post coming shortly.

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