linux-kernel - Re: [OT] 'git pull' from Linus' tree doesn't work for me any more

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Message-Id: <43861540-892A-4C87-BDEB-1858E73D66E8@gmail.com>
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
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