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Re: Problem with Linus's git repository?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jun 27, 2007, 16:34 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.0.98.0706270932040.8675@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, walt wrote:
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> >
> > It's not missing, it's packed. I tend to re-pack after I make a release,
> > and this time I did it after -rc6...
> 
> Sometime overnight this problem disappeared.  I haven't actually
> tested this idea, but I have a hunch that your commit yesterday
> of "Fix zero-object version-2 packs" is the reason.

No, I think the reason is simply that I pushed more updates to kernel.org, so now the kernel git repo has an explicit and separate "master" branch again.

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"

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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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