Re: No common commits question

From: Lars Jarnbo Pedersen <lars.jarnbo.pedersen@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2008, 10:09 UTC
Message-ID: <1213438148.9800.17.camel@neo>
In-Reply-To: <20080614092923.GB22538@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 05:29 -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:17:45AM +0200, Lars Jarnbo Pedersen wrote:
> 
> > I have been tracking the Linux kernel with for at least a year now doing
> > frequent pulls (once every other day or so). I'm not doing any
> > development so it should be a clean update everytime. However once in a
> > while I get a "no common commit" warning and git starts to download the
> > entire repo again. (It happened again today - therefore this mail)
> > [...]
> > - git version 1.5.4.3
> 
> This has been noted a few times on the list (try searching for "no
> common commits"), and there were some patches a few months ago that made
> it into 1.5.5.
> 
> Can you try with the latest stable release, 1.5.5.4?

I have not build and installed the latest stable release and use that instead of what is included in Ubuntu. However I did let the download complete so I cannot re-test this error (sorry). But thanks for your quick response.

- Lars