[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Please check Git version on OpenAFS build slaves

[Dave Botsch]

RHEL6 is distributed with git version 1.7.1 .

If one can provide me with a quick explanation of what the missing
options are supposed to do (and how they are useful), I can put in a RFE
with RedHat via our support contract and see what they say.

I'd prefer not to override git versions since that means no support from
RedHat if something w.r.t. it or its support libraries breaks.

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 04:07:30PM -0500, Andrew Deason wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:23:16 +0100
> Simon Wilkinson <simonxwilkinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Is there any reason we can't just add this to .gitignore?
> > 
> > I didn't want to make the change to .gitignore because it breaks
> > building OpenAFS versions that don't have that change in them - it
> > seemed somewhat fragile. Of course, the alternative is also fragile,
> > as it depends on the git version of each build slave.
> 
> Well, "breaks". It pulls extra data instead of a command actually
> failing, and in theory the number of builds pulling extra stuff would go
> away very quickly. But... it's also much less visible and hammers the
> server when it "breaks".
> 
> I was thinking doing that could reduce maintenance burden for slaves,
> but... yeah. I agree neither way seems great, so "whatever". potayto
> potahto.
> 
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> Andrew Deason
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