Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Friday 09 December 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On Friday 09 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: >> > >> > That looks like a fine solution, though I haven't tried it yet. >> > >> I did for a few simple cases (on Linux), it seems to work fine. Before >> committing I'll try it out on Solaris and a BSD system as well. >> > It seems to work ok on those systems as well. I haven't tried it with > older git versions (e.g., pre-1.7), but since this is a maintainer-only > convenience target, IMO it's OK to require a modern git.
I agree: there's no need to worry about git older than 1.7 for that.