From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Subject: Trouble building newer git with older Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:47:16 -0700 Message-ID: <20060808184716.GC4546@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 08 20:47:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAWbz-0005Nd-Nf for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:47:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965032AbWHHSrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:47:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965034AbWHHSrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:47:20 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:64460 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965032AbWHHSrT (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:47:19 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k78IlIJu028833 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:47:18 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/NCO/VER7.0) with ESMTP id k78IlIE7247512 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:47:18 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k78IlIgW032144 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:47:18 -0400 Received: from arkanoid ([9.12.243.86]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k78IlIb6032117 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:47:18 -0400 Received: by arkanoid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 01F1B6769E; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 11:47:16 -0700 (PDT) To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.17.7 (x86_64) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi all, I am in the process of updating one of our system's set of git binaries and noticed the following. When executing git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git cd git git checkout make I get this error: kernel:/home/nacc/download/git# make GIT_VERSION = Usage: git COMMAND [OPTIONS] [TARGET] git command 'describe' not found: commands are: add apply archimport bisect branch checkout cherry clone commit count.objects cvsimport diff fetch format.patch fsck.cache get.tar.commit.id init.db log ls.remote octopus pack.objects parse.remote patch.id prune pull push rebase relink rename repack request.pull reset resolve revert send.email shortlog show.branch status tag verify.tag whatchanged-dirty GIT-VERSION-FILE:2: *** multiple target patterns. Stop. This is because GIT-VERSION-GEN attempts to invoke `git describe` but describe is not a valid parameter to the current version of git. This is not treated as a failure case, though, as output is stored in VN. Perhaps the return code of `git describe` should also be checked? Or am I just not supposed to upgrade from this old of a version of git via git? Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan IBM Linux Technology Center