From 5bb0433a51b160c06aef212e8d18cb19a2b62087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Villegas <git@marvil07.net>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 12:22:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Provide a way to retirve git version from the related util
 class.

---
 src/Composer/Util/Git.php | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Composer/Util/Git.php b/src/Composer/Util/Git.php
index 8d0c423bd..19e0a8e46 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Util/Git.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Util/Git.php
@@ -271,4 +271,20 @@ class Git
 
         throw new \RuntimeException(self::sanitizeUrl($message));
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves the current git version.
+     *
+     * @return string
+     *   The git version number.
+     */
+    public function getVersion() {
+        if (0 !== $this->process->execute('git --version', $output)) {
+            throw new \RuntimeException(self::sanitizeUrl('Failed retrieve git version, git was not found, check that it is installed and in your PATH env.' . "\n\n" . $this->process->getErrorOutput()));
+        }
+        if (strpos($output, 'git version ') === FALSE) {
+            throw new \RuntimeException('git --version output seems to have changed, expected "git version x.y.z".');
+        }
+        return substr($output, 12);
+    }
 }