Oldest Currently Distributed Git {Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit}

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Nov 5, 2010, 14:39 UTC
Message-ID: <1288967974.30670.13.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <vpqaalujw69.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 15:04 +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > What is the oldest version of git that is shipped with _current_ distros,
> > by the way?
> 
> Debian stable has 1.5.6.5. Since there should be a Debian release
> within the next few months, that should be an upper bound on how old a
> package can get in a release (well, unless for RedHat users maybe).
>

EPEL for RHEL5 is 1.5.5.6 (plus security/bugfix patches). RHEL5 itself doesn't have git (as if it did it wouldn't be in EPEL).

We await RHEL6--granted it will take a while to upgrade things to that point after it comes out.

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-Drew Northup N1XIM
   AKA RvnPhnx on OPN
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