From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Koller Subject: Re: Cannot install git RPM Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:36:38 +0200 Message-ID: <42F8CD86.9000409@anagramm.de> References: <20050809104040.B9C61352B36@atlas.denx.de> <20050809110705.6B1FF352B36@atlas.denx.de> <42F8AE6E.2020808@anagramm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Wolfgang Denk , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 09 17:37:08 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2W9f-00060b-Lh for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:36:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964823AbVHIPgh (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964825AbVHIPgg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:36 -0400 Received: from moutvdom.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.249]:15594 "EHLO moutvdomng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964823AbVHIPgg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:36 -0400 Received: from [212.227.126.221] (helo=mrvdomng.kundenserver.de) by moutvdomng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1E2W9W-00016g-00; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:36:30 +0200 Received: from [84.154.80.14] (helo=[192.168.1.10]) by mrvdomng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1E2W9W-0000hI-00; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:36:30 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi, Linus! Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Clemens Koller wrote: > >>Over here - using a non-standard ELDK/LFS mixture, git depends at least on: >>... >>diffstat (ftp://invisible-island.net/diffstat/diffstat-1.39.tgz) > > > Hmm.. This should not be true. Any "diffstat"s should be converted to use > "git-apply --stat" instead. > > I don't find any diffstat users, so maybe you just remember it from "the > old days", and didn't realize that it's not needed any more. Okay, just FYI: As far as my installation history remembers it was needed at least up to: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2 Which is _NOT_ recommended for new installations! (Can somebody please remove/mark that old stuff to avoid using it?!) Instead use: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/git/git-latest.tar.gz > [ That said, anybody who wants to install git might as well install > diffstat, it's a useful program in general, and works on more than just > unified diffs ] true. Greets, Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm.de Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19