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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-04-23 13:59:14 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-04-23 13:59:14 -0400
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@@ -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
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+> 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]]