From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758026AbYHTXVv (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:21:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754845AbYHTXVn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:21:43 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.229]:58310 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754808AbYHTXVm (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:21:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=references:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:mime-version:subject:date:cc; b=kqIDgfr4/vSJtSWoTdz5RbFyWB2IrAOfIg0UxPvUAqKHIQuH7zTjLpxer92Dj0+xLe ax5c/8RD1ppFMdpYCU5jRfPT+8tR3j4zAXhTNWuzn8vIyp9SYcqNrW8vzZwAoErkZlWv tt/UrtdmZL6h/hvUUoxeNS1yn9J7+GwEXp8uM= References: <200808210045.42693.rjw@sisk.pl> <200808210058.06515.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-Id: <43861540-892A-4C87-BDEB-1858E73D66E8@gmail.com> From: "Justin P. Mattock" To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (5C1) Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5C1) Subject: Re: [OT] 'git pull' from Linus' tree doesn't work for me any more Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:21:38 -0700 Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/