move git_version_string into version.c

The global git_version_string currently lives in git.c, but
doesn't have anything to do with the git wrapper. Let's move
it into its own file, where it will be more appropriate to
build more version-related functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/version.c b/version.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca68653865
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version.c
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+#include "git-compat-util.h"
+#include "version.h"
+
+const char git_version_string[] = GIT_VERSION;