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From: Hendrik Visage <hvjunk@gmail.com>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: david@dgreaves.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git vs git
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:05:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d93f04c70601302105v426201dbhac6abd41cdc4050c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90601301216n793f0eb5k34a2b5a7c4e7491e@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/30/06, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/06, Hendrik Visage <hvjunk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > git isn't
> > working because the wrong git is in the right place :(
>
> Well, I just hit this yesterday on a colleage's machine who was trying
> to get going with git.His first try was to `apt-get install git` and
> as that didn't lead anywhere he fetched the git (scm) sources and
> built them.
>
<snip>

> Not sure how to deal with this. Packages already record (or can
> record) it as a conflict, but source built stuff is different. Perhaps
> during `make install` we should try and exec git --version towards the
> end and print a big fat warning?

Or stop the egos and do a name change as would be the honourable way
especially as gitscm is less than a year old...

--
Hendrik Visage

      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-31  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-30 15:14 git vs git Hendrik Visage
2006-01-30 15:18 ` David Lang
2006-01-30 15:30 ` Josh Boyer
2006-01-30 15:37 ` Erik Mouw
2006-01-30 16:09   ` Hendrik Visage
2006-01-30 16:26     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-30 16:55   ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-01-30 17:23     ` Erik Mouw
2006-01-30 19:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-30 20:16 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-01-31  5:05   ` Hendrik Visage [this message]

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