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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Recent and near future backward incompatibilities
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:13:05 -0700
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:52:04 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > 
> > By the way, note that Ubuntu Dapper (the current stable version of
> > Ubuntu) is shipped with git version 1.1.3, and that incompatibility
> > extends not to the git repository, but also the Linux-2.6 repostiory
> > at
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> That should have been fixed earlier today, since I forced a repack when 
> this was discovered.
> 
> So if somebody still can't pull it with old git tools, please holler.
> 
> That said, Ubuntu should definitely upgrade.
> 
> 		Linus

They made some nice about putting a new version in the backport
repository.