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No common commits question

Subject: No common commits question

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3 messages between Jun 14, 2008 and Jun 14, 2008.

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Lars Jarnbo Pedersen· Jun 14, 2008, 09:17 UTC · lore

Hi,

I have been tracking the Linux kernel with for at least a year now doing frequent pulls (once every other day or so). I'm not doing any development so it should be a clean update everytime. However once in a while I get a "no common commit" warning and git starts to download the entire repo again. (It happened again today - therefore this mail)

As Im not changing anything I would not expect this to happen, but I may be wrong. Can anyone explain?

Im using Ubuntu 8.04 using the following version of git and Linux:
- git version 1.5.4.3
- Linux neo 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 16:35:01 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux

Finally I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you developers for a GREAT tool. Im currently working as a Software Release manager and have been working with many of the commercial competitors and what surprises me about git is that it seems to solve all of the *BIG* problems you have with SCM in a big corporate environment. Unfortunately we are NOT using git for the major part of my work, so Im currently only really enjoing git in my spare time :-)

Regards

Lars Jarnbo Pedersen

Jeff King· Jun 14, 2008, 09:29 UTC · re: Lars Jarnbo Pedersen · lore

Re: No common commits question

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:17:45AM +0200, Lars Jarnbo Pedersen wrote:

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> I have been tracking the Linux kernel with for at least a year now doing
> frequent pulls (once every other day or so). I'm not doing any
> development so it should be a clean update everytime. However once in a
> while I get a "no common commit" warning and git starts to download the
> entire repo again. (It happened again today - therefore this mail)
> [...]
> - git version 1.5.4.3

This has been noted a few times on the list (try searching for "no common commits"), and there were some patches a few months ago that made it into 1.5.5.

Can you try with the latest stable release, 1.5.5.4?

-Peff

Lars Jarnbo Pedersen· Jun 14, 2008, 10:09 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: No common commits question

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 05:29 -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:17:45AM +0200, Lars Jarnbo Pedersen wrote:
> 
> > I have been tracking the Linux kernel with for at least a year now doing
> > frequent pulls (once every other day or so). I'm not doing any
> > development so it should be a clean update everytime. However once in a
> > while I get a "no common commit" warning and git starts to download the
> > entire repo again. (It happened again today - therefore this mail)
> > [...]
> > - git version 1.5.4.3
> 
> This has been noted a few times on the list (try searching for "no
> common commits"), and there were some patches a few months ago that made
> it into 1.5.5.
> 
> Can you try with the latest stable release, 1.5.5.4?

I have not build and installed the latest stable release and use that instead of what is included in Ubuntu. However I did let the download complete so I cannot re-test this error (sorry). But thanks for your quick response.

- Lars