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Re: upgrading GIT from version 1.7.0.4 to 1.7.6.1.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 19, 2011, 21:26 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> [2] I suspect a similar thing happened with turning on packed refs
>     (around the v1.4.4 era?), but I didn't dig around for details.

Also when bisecting down to really ancient versions of git, you may get complaints from the configuration reader. E.g.

    $ rungit v1.0.0 ls-files
    fatal: bad config file line 78 in .git/config
    $ sed -n 78p .git/config
    [remote "git-gui"]
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Message 5 of 7 in “upgrading GIT from version 1.7.0.4 to 1.7.6.1.”
  1. MikaëlSep 19, 2011
  2. Sverre RabbelierSep 19, 2011
  3. Andreas EricssonSep 19, 2011
  4. Jeff KingSep 19, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2011
  6. Jeff KingSep 19, 2011
  7. Jakub NarebskiSep 19, 2011

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