# this appears to be an ubuntu issue, where xenial did not provide it even though the
# feature appeared in git 2.6 and xenial claims it has git version 2.7.4. eventually,
# this version test can go away.
-gitvertest="$(git version | sed -e 's/git version [0-9]\.//' | sed -e 's/\.0$//' )"
+gitvertest="$(git version | sed -e 's/git version [0-9]\.//' | sed -e 's/\.[0-9][0-9]*$//' )"
#hmmm: temp below!
echo gitvertest is $gitvertest
if (( $gitvertest >= 11 )); then