From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Pinard) Subject: Re: Slight in error in git-rerere help page Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:28:09 -0400 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 28 04:28:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MVcQB-00061I-US for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:28:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751747AbZG1C17 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:27:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751356AbZG1C16 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:27:58 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38480 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbZG1C16 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:27:58 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MVcPz-00033h-FZ for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:27:55 +0000 Received: from 206-248-137-202.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.137.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:27:55 +0000 Received: from pinard by 206-248-137-202.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:27:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-137-202.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rPDgliItZAUD1hmuiW3oAIejFt0= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (Fran=C3=A7ois Pinard) writes: > Hi, people. This is for git version 1.6.4.rc3.12.gdf73a > > The output of "git help rerere" contains: > > You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled to enabl= e > this command. > > It seems that that "enable" is not a proper value. If I used it over= a > small repository, I get: > > 22:17:33 0 pinard@phenix:etc $ git config rerere.enabled enable > 22:17:44 0 pinard@phenix:etc $ git gc > Counting objects: 1072, done. > Compressing objects: 100% (559/559), done. > Writing objects: 100% (1072/1072), done. > Total 1072 (delta 460), reused 1072 (delta 460) > fatal: bad config value for 'rerere.enabled' in .git/config > error: failed to run rerere > > Removing the rerere section repairs this last problem. > > P.S. - I'm also a bit curious about why rerere is needed for a garbag= e > collection. I now see my mistake, which is one of misreading English. Sorry for my noise. Thanks! --=20 =46ran=C3=A7ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca