`git describe`

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday November 29 2016 19:03:04 Clemens Lang wrote:

Since you decided to answer despite the smiley ... :)

> By asking. Somebody who wastes developers time by hiding the fact that
> they are running and older version on purpose will end up no longer
> getting support at some point.
> 
> No need to solve a social problem with technical measures.

Well, regardless of whether the reporter is hiding things on purpose, you'll still have to ask for technical details in order to be certain that the installed version is indeed too old.

If you prefer to do that rather than having the info available in the log, who am I to suggest otherwise :)

R