>
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> Well, it hasn't been working for a couple of hours now ...
>
> Hmm. I just tested it myself, and it worked fine for me to just update
> another machine by pulling from git.kernel.org.
>
> What version of git do you have? One thing that changed recently is
> that
> at least some kernel.org git binaries got updated to 1.6.0, and if you
> have a really ancient version of git (Debian 'stable' aka 'rubbish'
> ships
> with something two years old), you'd better upgrade.
>
> From the 1.6.0 announcement:
>
> GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes
> ========================
>
> User visible changes
> --------------------
>
> With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
> installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and
> some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
> reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
> line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced
> in
> 1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding
> output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this
> release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
> scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
> "git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
>
> An earlier change to page "git status" output was overwhelmingly
> unpopular
> and has been reverted.
>
> Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all
> in the
> main git.git codebase.
>
> By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-
> offset
> encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2
> that
> allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
> introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your
> repositories
> backwards compatible past these versions, set
> repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
> to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.
>
> and no, I am not at all interested in helping Debian continue to ship
> git versions almost two years old, and much inferior to modern
> versions.
> So I'm not going to set the flag that makes it work with old gits.
>
> Linus
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