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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-12-06 18:40:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-12-06 18:40:59 -0400 |
| commit | c134feaaff5d847b50e0289bcdc0fe95c1e217f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f63405b732c6c09661d3ee49eca611fc65032e4 | |
| parent | ed9c1ea91b4efa347513fb342766478150365a60 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/Error_when_dropping___34__hGetLine:_end_of_file__34__.mdwn | 8 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Error_when_dropping___34__hGetLine:_end_of_file__34__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Error_when_dropping___34__hGetLine:_end_of_file__34__.mdwn index 834a5f54f..d0b2c1538 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Error_when_dropping___34__hGetLine:_end_of_file__34__.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Error_when_dropping___34__hGetLine:_end_of_file__34__.mdwn @@ -21,3 +21,11 @@ Since adding a certain directory of files (just a bunch of PDFs) yesterday I am [many more repetitions] If I `git annex get` the files and then drop them again, a further attempt at a drop gives all these errors again. + +> So in summary, a git-annex built against the old version of git in +> debian stable fails to work with a newer version of git, and rebuilding +> fixes it. FWIW, the git-annex backport to stable does not have this +> problem, because it checks git version at runtime. But I want to avoid +> the overhead of that check in git-annex mainline, because this old git +> version is well, very old and increasingly unlikely to be used. So, +> I don't think any changes to git-annex are warrented. [[done]] --[[Joey]] |