From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:26:53 GMT
Subject: Re: SVN -> Git *but* with special changes
Message-ID: <4F0AA4CD.2080102@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1326061722334-7165979.post@n2.nabble.com>

On 01/08/2012 11:28 PM, Abscissa wrote:
> In answer to someone's question, yea, it's Ubuntu (Kubuntu 10.04, and yea, I
> know that's old, but it's not my primary system and I haven't had a chance
> yet to upgrade it and get everything set back up again). I also tried it on
> a Debian 6 Live/Persistent system and got the same results...apparently for
> the same reason.

For Ubuntu users: there is a git PPA [1] which usually has quite
up-to-date git packages for recent Ubuntu releases.  If you configure
your system to use this PPA (instructions are on the page) then you can
stay up-to-date with minimal effort.  Currently they have version
1.7.8.2 available for hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, and oneiric and
older versions for some other Ubuntu releases.

Caveat: I am not affiliated with the PPA and cannot vouch for its integrity.

Michael

[1] https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa

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