Re: [OT] Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 50 commits.

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Jul 1, 2008, 11:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20080701112235.GC11809@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20080701111601.GT4729@genesis.frugalware.org>

* Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:07:25PM +0200, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > !! You have installed git-* commands to new gitexecdir.
> > !! Old version git-* commands still remain in bindir.
> > !! Mixing two versions of Git will lead to problems.
> > !! Please remove old version commands in bindir now.
> > 
> > that's an easily overlooked detail.
> 
> There is a 10-lines-length note about this in RelNotes, but I think 
> removing the old version is a task of the package manager. At least 
> till the git Makefile does not have an 'uninstall' target.

random (likely stupid) idea: perhaps git could use ... a separate Git repo to track gitexecdir installations in $HOME/bin/? That could be tagged appropriately so you'd always know what to uninstall and whether there are clashes or incompatibilities.

[ Oh, and i could switch between git versions without having to rebuild
  ;-) ]

	Ingo