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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:21:38 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [OT] 'git pull' from Linus' tree doesn't work for me any more Looks like I need to upgrade My git. At the moment using 1.5.6.3. justin P. Mattock On Aug 20, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org > wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >> Well, it hasn't been working for a couple of hours now ... > > Hmm. I just tested it myself, and it worked fine for me to just update > another machine by pulling from git.kernel.org. > > What version of git do you have? One thing that changed recently is > that > at least some kernel.org git binaries got updated to 1.6.0, and if you > have a really ancient version of git (Debian 'stable' aka 'rubbish' > ships > with something two years old), you'd better upgrade. > > From the 1.6.0 announcement: > > GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes > ======================== > > User visible changes > -------------------- > > With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now > installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and > some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical > reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command > line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced > in > 1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding > output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this > release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their > scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing > "git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases. > > An earlier change to page "git status" output was overwhelmingly > unpopular > and has been reverted. > > Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all > in the > main git.git codebase. > > By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base- > offset > encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 > that > allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, > introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your > repositories > backwards compatible past these versions, set > repack.useDeltaBaseOffset > to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively. > > and no, I am not at all interested in helping Debian continue to ship > git versions almost two years old, and much inferior to modern > versions. > So I'm not going to set the flag that makes it work with old gits. > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux- > kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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