Leiningen uses git commands for certain functionality, but gitlibs just checkouts the code into a plain directory with no git information. One of the pieces of functionality that is rather useful is that it places the git version number into the pom.properties meta file in the jar if it can locate it. Now, lein-git-down will run the jar command in the context of an initialized git repository so this and other git functionality will work as expected in the original repo.
Leiningen uses git commands for certain functionality, but gitlibs just checkouts the code into a plain directory with no git information. One of the pieces of functionality that is rather useful is that it places the git version number into the
pom.propertiesmeta file in the jar if it can locate it. Now, lein-git-down will run the jar command in the context of an initialized git repository so this and other git functionality will work as expected in the original repo.