From: André de Castro <aramosdecastro@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:50:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug report - Apple git
Message-ID: <4B31DB8A-E74B-41FF-9C53-7A877D135489@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <B50229FA-0C33-4DFD-B8D9-79F30D616F86@gmail.com>


> This works for me on version 2.48.0.  It seems to have been fixed in
> 2.43.0.  You would have to update to a newer version.
> 
> It looks like it was fixed in 4adceb5a299 (diff: fix --merge-base with
> annotated tags, 2023-10-01).[1]  The intent of the error message was to
> disallow non-commit-ish like trees:
> 
>    v2.48.0^{tree}
> 
> But it also rejected annotated tags instead of peeling them.
> 
> 🔗 1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20231001151845.3621551-1-hi@alyssa.is/


Indeed it works here with the homebrew version (2.48.0).

Thank you for the quick reply.

> Hm, I don't think that this group/mailing list takes responsibility
> for binaries shipped by companies.
> 
> If you want, you can compile Git yourself to be "on par" with
> what you find under other OS.
> That is the good thing with open source - please let us know,
> if help is needed.


I was unsure whether this was the right place to post. Thanks for the tip.

André de Castro