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Re: svn versus git

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Dec 15, 2006, 08:52 UTC
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<200612142313.27741.arekm@maven.pl>
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
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> On Thursday 14 December 2006 23:07, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>> ps. I'm blind or there is no documentation about what utilities are
>>> needed to get git fully working? (like sed, coreutils, grep, rcs package
>>> (merge tool afaik needed)...).
>> perl and the standard coreutils, which afaik are required to be present
>> on all unix systems. 
> That's not all. sed and grep is also used. There may be some others hidden 
> deep in git and it would be good to have that docummented (I've hit the 
> problem already with missing some tool when preparing chroot for git).
>

sed and grep are, along with awk, part of the tools that are required to be present on all unix systems. Sorry for the confusion with coreutils (the package / software project).

When you set up a chroot environment, you want to at least copy /bin, /lib and /sbin to the new root and then remove whatever you *know* you don't need from them. Those directories should hold all programs the system needs to properly boot up.

>> We no longer require external merge tools. 
> Starting from which version?
>

Latest only. It was added 2006-12-06 and the dependency on external merge program was removed in a commit created 2006-12-13. Junio merged the merge-code into master one hour later. It is not in the maint branch, so I don't know if any distributions ship git with the new xdl_merge() thing. It's *very* good though. Kudos to Johannes Schindelin for really making things right.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  38. Andreas EricssonDec 14, 2006
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  40. Shawn PearceDec 14, 2006
  41. Andreas EricssonDec 15, 2006
  42. Johannes SchindelinDec 14, 2006
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