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Re: gnulib bootstrap and git submodules
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Eric Blake |
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Re: gnulib bootstrap and git submodules |
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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:54:31 -0700 |
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According to Jim Meyering on 2/17/2010 10:21 AM:
>> or should we just assume that git 1.6.4 or newer is widespread enough to
>> not be worth the hassle?
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> I'd prefer to assume git 1.6.4 to keep things simpler, at least until
> someone comes up with a compelling reason to add code to support older git.
Libvirt came up with the compelling reason - Fedora Core 11 only has
1.6.2.5, and RPEL 5 is back at git 1.5.5. This should fix it, by
borrowing ideas from m4's bootstrap script.
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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