Re: Errors pushing tags in "next"

From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Mar 23, 2007, 09:38 UTC
Message-ID: <409322.88629.qm@web31809.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200703230913.12742.andyparkins@gmail.com>

--- Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:

> The output you show is from the update hook from an older version of git, but 
> the git you're running on the remote end is a newer version.  The hook 
> scripts don't get updated when you upgrade git because they're copied to the 
> repository from the latest template when you clone or init.

Yeah, most of my git repos, especially the web exported ones are truly of an ancient git...

> The fix:  My own suggestion would be to just swap the update hook on the 
> server for the one that came with the latest version of git (although I'm 
> completely biased :-)).  Remember to do this on the remote repository, not 
> your local one.

Yeah, I'll cp(1) the most recent "update" hook I got in "next" to the ancient web exported repos I own...

> Alternatively; I've got a further update to the notification email script 
> prepared that I'm finishing testing and will send today that updates to use 
> the post-receive hook rather than the update hook and fixes a number of bugs.

Ok, sounds good.

Thanks,
   Luben