From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: upgrading GIT from version 1.7.0.4 to 1.7.6.1. Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:26:55 -0700 Message-ID: <7vwrd48bq8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1316435430491-6808156.post@n2.nabble.com> <4E773A71.6020905@op5.se> <20110919190023.GC26115@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Ericsson , =?utf-8?Q?Mika=C3=ABl?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 19 23:27:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R5lMp-0006aM-PK for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:27:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932790Ab1ISV1A (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:27:00 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:33233 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932787Ab1ISV05 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:26:57 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B8052DE; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:26:57 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=fA9Vfq16AhmKE1X1vinxgN1TggY=; b=ZwWG6f qUXM2LjX3IOXy+In7mZTOfMK3QOY4aclcgkxnoLBEPUACS3yHwzIIHvBcVAu/Hy8 bSsiqK0fwiZYarCNiccHNQbVH/9lbaCvPQ1ZjqarV2SO9zbUbRIhF9vK3/9YPjOM Q6wi91gOdHCGu96wxyooi7ib3Gaw48cRB1RNU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=GgesS4gTuQDQpgt5H1nBO3UcpdXAeN5e jpY66xeyhHJph4+jxFSM3C8+UwfB2hDQAXEymMkHEKIURu9+2WxbYnMWUaGBYkaR MmbHLVnAvyxlARV5oGzdBXiOu9Uq4I/5DlpNADQFYgy7BX5eNrtyu4zrOgL4z4UH 7Ld0KNMFn7U= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F44452DD; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:26:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CB2EF52DC; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:26:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20110919190023.GC26115@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:00:23 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1A1B8F92-E306-11E0-8083-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > [2] I suspect a similar thing happened with turning on packed refs > (around the v1.4.4 era?), but I didn't dig around for details. Also when bisecting down to really ancient versions of git, you may get complaints from the configuration reader. E.g. $ rungit v1.0.0 ls-files fatal: bad config file line 78 in .git/config $ sed -n 78p .git/config [remote "git-gui"]