From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:49:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.rc3
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In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX77ZhdS1cyiYpjJcuvSnJsv15FUumPWeZOcwh_b41c2FQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:41, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7-rc3
>> tag and the master branch that the tag points at:
>
> The 1.7.7-rc* series still doesn't compile on older Red Hat machines
> because 4c1be38b4a236403a329187acb70591a7fd92150 hasn't been included
> in it.
>
> Could you please include that in the final 1.7.7? It would be a PITA
> to have to work around that.

I somehow got an impression from an other earlier thread that this only
affect ancient and abandoned releases of some distros.

Will merge. Thanks for prodding.