Re: issues(?) installing git-lfs via fedora "dnf" command

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: May 21, 2018, 17:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20180521171405.GB10623@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1805211303260.19892@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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>> The packager should be able to find out whether it's an issue in
>> git-lfs upstream and report it to that project if it is.  Git-lfs is
>> not part of git.git; it's a separate project:
>> https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>> I believe they use github's issue tracker to track bugs.
>
>   it would *appear* that this is a combination of both a git issue,
> and a red hat packaging issue:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1580357
> https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/3013

Can you clarify? Neither of those bugs points to a git issue if I understand correctly. They may be a git-lfs issue, though.

This kind of confusion is exactly why the Git project adopted a trademark policy to prevent outside projects from identifying themselves with Git: https://git-scm.com/about/trademark. Unfortunately Git LFS's existence precedes that policy. I believe they got permission to continue using the name, confusing as it is.

Thanks, Jonathan