On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:18 PM Doug Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:07 PM Genki Sky <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 12:55:14 -0800, Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ubuntu 16.04 ships with git version 2.7.4. > > > > Okay. I guess --no-optional-locks is a no-go then. > > In theory you could wrap it. If passing git with > "--no-optional-locks" doesn't work you could fall back to the old > code? That would mean only people with newer git would get your new > feature and everyone else would stick with the pre-existing behavior.
+1, that's what I was going to suggest. Presumably older git would give non-zero exit status for unknown flags, and we take that as signal to try to the old way?
