Re: Slight in error in git-rerere help page
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François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
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- Jul 28, 2009, 02:28 UTC
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- <ygetz0x35ja.fsf@phenix.progiciels-bpi.ca>
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- <ygeocr5blap.fsf@phenix.progiciels-bpi.ca>
pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
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> Hi, people. This is for git version 1.6.4.rc3.12.gdf73a > > The output of "git help rerere" contains: > > You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled to enable > this command. > > It seems that that "enable" is not a proper value. If I used it over a > small repository, I get: > > 22:17:33 0 pinard@phenix:etc $ git config rerere.enabled enable > 22:17:44 0 pinard@phenix:etc $ git gc > Counting objects: 1072, done. > Compressing objects: 100% (559/559), done. > Writing objects: 100% (1072/1072), done. > Total 1072 (delta 460), reused 1072 (delta 460) > fatal: bad config value for 'rerere.enabled' in .git/config > error: failed to run rerere > > Removing the rerere section repairs this last problem. > > P.S. - I'm also a bit curious about why rerere is needed for a garbage > collection.
I now see my mistake, which is one of misreading English. Sorry for my noise. Thanks!
-- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca