{"thread":{"id":"32725","subject":"git-core vs git package on ubuntu","startedAt":"2013-01-25T13:50:24Z","lastAt":"2013-01-25T14:25:03Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Mario Michael Krell","Matthieu Moy","Konstantin Khomoutov"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"207808","messageId":"4A4C2896-042A-4BE3-9E74-012D881D5776@googlemail.com","threadId":"32725","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git-core vs git package on ubuntu","fromName":"Mario Michael Krell","fromEmail":"supermariton@googlemail.com","sentAt":"2013-01-25T13:50:24Z","receivedAt":"2013-01-25T13:50:24Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"supermariton@googlemail.com","avatar":null},"body":"\nDear git developers,\n\nIn your documentation you say, that git should be installed on Unix using\n\napt-get install git-core\n\nUnfortunately it tells the user, that this package is obsolete and \"git\" should be used instead. Is this an error in the package manager or in the website documentation?\n\nGreets\n\nMario"},{"id":"207809","messageId":"vpqham5cq7n.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr","threadId":"32725","inReplyTo":"4A4C2896-042A-4BE3-9E74-012D881D5776@googlemail.com","subject":"Re: git-core vs git package on ubuntu","fromName":"Matthieu Moy","fromEmail":"matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr","sentAt":"2013-01-25T14:06:04Z","receivedAt":"2013-01-25T14:06:04Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/72c8a2705971a25dfaff23cece15130d405685845d911aedd5667ace277f3fc5?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Mario Michael Krell writes:\n\n> Dear git developers,\n>\n> In your documentation you say,\n\nWhich documentation?\n\n> that git should be installed on Unix using\n>\n> apt-get install git-core\n\nA quick grep shows that this is not the case in the documentation\nprovided with Git, and it's not what I see on\nhttp://git-scm.com/download/linux either.\n\n-- \nMatthieu Moy\nhttp://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/\n"},{"id":"207810","messageId":"20130125180657.648f2d985a43d4c80133c599@domain007.com","threadId":"32725","inReplyTo":"4A4C2896-042A-4BE3-9E74-012D881D5776@googlemail.com","subject":"Re: git-core vs git package on ubuntu","fromName":"Konstantin Khomoutov","fromEmail":"flatworm@users.sourceforge.net","sentAt":"2013-01-25T14:06:57Z","receivedAt":"2013-01-25T14:06:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"flatworm@users.sourceforge.net","avatar":null},"body":"On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:50:24 +0100\nMario Michael Krell wrote:\n\n> In your documentation you say, that git should be installed on Unix\n> using\n> \n> apt-get install git-core\n\nNote that Ubuntu is not Unix.\n\n> Unfortunately it tells the user, that this package is obsolete and\n> \"git\" should be used instead. Is this an error in the package manager\n> or in the website documentation?\n\nNeither of them. Git was packaged for Debian (and hence appeared in\nUbuntu) when another package with the name \"git\" already existed in the\narchive, and was unrelated to Git. So the Git package maintainer\npicked the name \"git-core\". After that, the maintainers of both\npackages discussed this issue and the maintainer of the original\npackage named \"git\" agreed to change the name of his package, and then,\nsubsequently, \"git-core\" has been renamed to \"git\", and the \"git-core\"\npackage has been turned into transitional dummy obsolete package.\n\nNow, whenever you're trying to install the \"git-core\" package, the\npackage system tells you it's obsolete and suggests the \"correct\"\npackage to install. After some time (the next OS release or later),\nthe \"git-core\" package will be removed completely from the archive.\n\nThis is the standard way to handle such situations in Debian and its\nderivatives, so nothing special here. The documentation on the\nwhatever site you were referring to should probably be updated as\ngit-core is obsolete even in the current stable release of Debian [1].\nI'm not sure which LTS release of Ubuntu is currently supported, but\nyou might check the state of the git-core package in it yourself,\nusing [2].\n\n1. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/git-core\n2. http://packages.ubuntu.com\n"},{"id":"207811","messageId":"vpq4ni5cpc0.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr","threadId":"32725","inReplyTo":"58A2D0C1-5E74-4449-9AC4-D2BDC494555C@googlemail.com","subject":"Re: git-core vs git package on ubuntu","fromName":"Matthieu Moy","fromEmail":"matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr","sentAt":"2013-01-25T14:25:03Z","receivedAt":"2013-01-25T14:25:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/72c8a2705971a25dfaff23cece15130d405685845d911aedd5667ace277f3fc5?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Cc-ing the Git list again.\n\nMario Michael Krell writes:\n\n> I am sorry for being so unspecific. I had problems finding your\n> mentioned website and quickly went through the \"getting started\"\n> tutorial and found the mentioned command at:\n>\n> http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git\n\nOK, this is the \"pro Git\" book. I just submitted a pull request:\n\n https://github.com/progit/progit/pull/358\n\n-- \nMatthieu Moy\nhttp://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/\n"}]}