From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: What's in git.git Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:17:10 +0200 Message-ID: <200610261417.10842.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <7vk62npipb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061026120824.GO20017@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=M438nGIIpiC10ei4K2aB4HHunCE0pxrgJPLyyVMP3ugB4P1+qSOa+DQL1MwDHzov+z7KLisdFDHQ2rkTnoH+WXJ0BvXLzB2p8wQ00ASUbNS610TfxV2+Bn4kDz5zO5tAYgLAWShxTX5xICAAZEHD9nj85ADkcKTEo0cD1Axeubk= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20061026120824.GO20017@pasky.or.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd4A1-0003qw-IR for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:16:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423352AbWJZMQe convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:16:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423354AbWJZMQe (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:16:34 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:12631 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423352AbWJZMQd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:16:33 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 32so344266ugm for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.220.17 with SMTP id s17mr2685714ugg; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.23.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id q1sm3710207uge.2006.10.26.05.16.31; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:16:32 -0700 (PDT) To: Petr Baudis Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Dnia czwartek 26. pa=BCdziernika 2006 14:08, Petr Baudis napisa=B3: > Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:12:36AM CEST, I got a letter > where Jakub Narebski said that... >> This unfortunately means that I cannot test gitweb based on 'master' >> branch using _released_ git core, git version 1.4.3.3, as it doesn't= have >> git-for-each-ref nor git-show-ref. >>=20 >> BTW. do people often use latest gitweb with older git binaries? Shou= ld >> we try to wait for core feature to mature to released version before= using >> it in gitweb? Or perhaps we should add some kind of version checking= , and >> provide workrounds, e.g. using $ENV{GIT_DIR} if git core doesn't sup= port >> --git-dir option, pathlimit filtering using git-rev-list piped to=20 >> git-diff-tree --stdin in git_history if there is no --full-history >> option, show always HEAD activity if there is no git-for-each-ref >> etc.; well the latest we can do without checking for git core versio= n, just >>=20 >> if -x qx($GIT --exec-path)/git-for-each-ref >=20 > I can't imagine a situation where you would _want_ to use latest gitw= eb > but refuse to use older git binaries - can you explain why do you wan= t > to do that? Theoretically? I could have Perl installed, have installed tools Git requires to use but not have installed tools Git require to compile. Hence forced to use pre-compiled binaries. =20 But that is not my situation. > If you don't want to install the latest master systemwide, that's > reasonable, but you can just keep the latest master for the gitweb > script and/or your personal use. Well, I'd use compiled 'master' version of git for gitweb, then... --=20 Jakub Narebski