Package: git-core Version: 1:1.4.4.4-2 Severity: normal I am using Lenny, which still has git-core 1.4.4.4. After I ran into a very weird behaviour of 'git bisect' on the linux kernel, I had some correspondence with Linus Torvalds and he urged me to upgrade to 1.5. I did this, and the problem went away.
Linus writes: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Carlo Wood wrote: > Conclusion: the weird behaviour that you think was wrong is > totally due to git 1.4.4.4. Ok. I'll bounce a note to Junio just due to curiosity in case he goes "ahh, yeah, it was that known bug", but I'll otherwise ignore this. Git-1.5.x is such a radically better version (not because it fixes this bug, but because we fixed a number of other issues, notably some very basic usability things), that I think any git users should really upgrade to a newer version. IOW, there's simply no reason to stay on anything older (git has always been backwards compatible since very early on, so upgrading to a newer version of git won't break anything, although some of the new UI's might obviously cause you to do things differently). As Linus is the author of git - I'd like, in turn, urge the debian maintainers of git-core to upgrade to 1.5.x. 1.4.4.4 is REALLY too outdated to have ANY benefit whatsoever. It is not "more stable" or anything, it's just plain old, buggy and much worse to use. Nobody should be using it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc4-hikaru-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages git-core depends on: ii libc6 2.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.15.5-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii liberror-perl 0.15-8 Perl module for error/exception ha ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7 Core Perl modules ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-15 compression library - runtime Versions of packages git-core recommends: pn curl <none> (no description available) pn git-doc <none> (no description available) ii less 394-4 Pager program similar to more ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:4.3p2-9 Secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original ii rsync 2.6.9-3 fast remote file copy program (lik -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
