From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Problems with using git Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:52:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <44063B7C.40609@webdrake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 02 01:53:14 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 1FEc42-0004Q4-Vp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:53:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750766AbWCBAxD (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:53:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750799AbWCBAxD (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:53:03 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:36272 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbWCBAxC (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:53:02 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k220r0DZ007475 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:53:00 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k220quSq030675; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:52:58 -0800 To: Joseph Wakeling In-Reply-To: <44063B7C.40609@webdrake.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.68__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > > I'm using openSUSE 10.0 and the package installed is git-core version > 0.99.3git20050905-2. I think your problems are just related to the fact that the tutorial is newer than your git version. Just fetch a newer version of git first (0.99.3 should be new enough to happily fetch a newer version using git itself, but it might be easier to just get a tar-ball), and you'll have an easier time at it. Linus