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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-04-23 13:59:14 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-04-23 13:59:14 -0400 |
| commit | 13b3c84e1030d3ca24593d49cf4fd3a603a3bbda (patch) | |
| tree | abccff187b0ed9ea539227661feb0a547ce41de1 | |
| parent | 129755d37e6fd16c058d7e9a401a521249b21090 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/git-annex-shell:_user_error___40__unrecognized_option___96__--uuid__39__.mdwn | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/git-annex-shell:_user_error___40__unrecognized_option___96__--uuid__39__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/git-annex-shell:_user_error___40__unrecognized_option___96__--uuid__39__.mdwn index 1651457a7..174e8082a 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/git-annex-shell:_user_error___40__unrecognized_option___96__--uuid__39__.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/git-annex-shell:_user_error___40__unrecognized_option___96__--uuid__39__.mdwn @@ -44,3 +44,10 @@ Insted I see this: What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? git-annex does not understand a '--version' switch and I cannot find another option to print the version. It's the latest I just installed via cabal. OS is Arch Linux on kernel 3.8.8 + +> This happens if the remote server has a very old version of +> git-annex-shell. While I would not, today, add a new option like +> --uuid that breaks backwards compatability as happened here, +> I don't intend to try to make git-annex backwards compatible +> with that old version. Not even Debian stable has such an old version of +> git-annex anymore, so there's no excuse not to upgrade. [[done]] |