From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Recent and near future backward incompatibilities Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7v4pu62ite.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061015224012.GC5092@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 16 01:52:56 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 1GZFmk-0003Dx-FX for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:52:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422948AbWJOXwr (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:52:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422950AbWJOXwr (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:52:47 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9659 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422948AbWJOXwq (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:52:46 -0400 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 k9FNq6aX022449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:52:06 -0700 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 k9FNq5iG008902; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:52:05 -0700 To: Theodore Tso In-Reply-To: <20061015224012.GC5092@thunk.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.473 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.95__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.155 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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