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Re: Problem with Linus's git repository?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 28, 2007, 04:19 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> What is your git version? The _real_ fix probably is to just upgrade. Are 
> you using that broken(*) Debian git package by any chance?
>
> 		Linus
>
> (*) By broken I mean "stable cannot be bothered to upgrade packages to 
> modern versions, and is still on some ancient 1.4-based git version"

Well, although git 1.4 is ancient in git timescale, you can keep your repository friendly with older versions of git and 1.4 certainly is not too old for that. In other words, newer git lets you choose to make your repository unreadable by 1.4, and you chose to do so, perhaps for a good reason.

Should we call git 1.5 "backward incompatible" with 1.4, because it allows you (or anybody) to make that choice? I dunno.

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  1. waltJun 26, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsJun 26, 2007
  3. waltJun 27, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsJun 27, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2007
  6. waltJun 28, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJun 28, 2007
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2007
  9. waltJun 29, 2007
  10. Andreas EricssonJun 29, 2007

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