Re: [OT] 'git pull' from Linus' tree doesn't work for me any more

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Thursday, 21 of August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > Well, it hasn't been working for a couple of hours now ...
> 
> Hmm. I just tested it myself, and it worked fine for me to just update 
> another machine by pulling from git.kernel.org.
> 
> What version of git do you have? One thing that changed recently is that 
> at least some kernel.org git binaries got updated to 1.6.0, and if you 
> have a really ancient version of git (Debian 'stable' aka 'rubbish' ships 
> with something two years old), you'd better upgrade.
> 
> From the 1.6.0 announcement:
> 
>   GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes
>   ========================
>   
>   User visible changes
>   --------------------
>   
>   With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
>   installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and
>   some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
>   reasons.  Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
>   line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
>   1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding
>   output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this
>   release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
>   scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
>   "git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
>   
>   An earlier change to page "git status" output was overwhelmingly unpopular
>   and has been reverted.
>   
>   Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
>   main git.git codebase.
>   
>   By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
>   encoding introduced in v1.4.4.  Pack idx files are using version 2 that
>   allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
>   introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5.  If you want to keep your repositories
>   backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
>   to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.
>   
> and no, I am not at all interested in helping Debian continue to ship
> git versions almost two years old, and much inferior to modern versions. 
> So I'm not going to set the flag that makes it work with old gits.

I have 1.5.2.4 and it works now.

Thanks,
Rafael