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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-12-16 16:49:39 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-12-16 16:49:39 -0400
commitc1f270f79458e25bcf632fa91e229193371b6f5c (patch)
tree645dfb2ecbf8704f5d0be105ff985dfce337c4df
parented3988815200be6026719f114f87f2ed57c175a5 (diff)
make note of minimum git version
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/fatal:_git_ls-files:_cannot_generate_relative_filenames_containing___39__..__39__.mdwn3
-rw-r--r--doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/fatal:_git_ls-files:_cannot_generate_relative_filenames_containing___39__..__39__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/fatal:_git_ls-files:_cannot_generate_relative_filenames_containing___39__..__39__.mdwn
index 4f855f487..f81abb9d5 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/fatal:_git_ls-files:_cannot_generate_relative_filenames_containing___39__..__39__.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/fatal:_git_ls-files:_cannot_generate_relative_filenames_containing___39__..__39__.mdwn
@@ -47,3 +47,6 @@ upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2
# End of transcript or log.
"""]]
+
+> Added note about git version to from scratch installation instructions.
+> Debian package already depends on a newer version. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn b/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
index f99d8e78e..7f78da537 100644
--- a/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ quite a lot.
* [unix-compat](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unix-compat)
* [MonadCatchIO-transformers](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/MonadCatchIO-transformers)
* Shell commands
- * [git](http://git-scm.com/)
+ * [git](http://git-scm.com/) (1.7.2 or newer; 1.8.5 recommended)
* [xargs](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils/)
* [rsync](http://rsync.samba.org/)
* [curl](http://http://curl.haxx.se/) (optional, but recommended)