Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] 'git pull' from Linus' tree doesn't work for me any more | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:16:44 +0200 |
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On Thursday, 21 of August 2008, 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.
I have 1.5.2.4 and it works now.
Thanks, Rafael
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