On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 01:50:24 +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Pieter Praet wrote:
> [...]
> > - ;; Kludge. git < 1.7.2 does not support git rev-list --count
>
> Perhaps it's time to retire this kludge: are there really users of git
> 1.7.2 (2010/07) and the latest magit?
Well, apparently it was added only 1 month ago [1],
in response to issue 690 [2].
At the time, Jonas stated: [3]
#+begin_quote
But do we really want/have to support a version of git
which will celebrate it's third birthday tomorrow?
#+end_quote
and: [4]
#+begin_quote
Let's assume we do and merge. I would still like to
discuss this, and depending on the decision revert this.
#+end_quote
On the one hand, the '--count' option was added 3+ years ago
(git commit f69c5018 [5]) and even a fossil like Debian Squeeze
has 1.7.2.5 [6], but on the other, we're still shipping a bunch
of compatibility functions for Emacs 22.2 which was released
in March 2008 [7]...
Peace
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Pieter
[1] commit 54156be7
[2] https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/690
[3] https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/695
[4] https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/695#issuecomment-19790743
[5] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/commit/?id=f69c5018
[6] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/git
[7] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2008-03/msg00000.html
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