[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-2.1.0-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-2.1.0-1

[Adam Dinwoodie]

Version 2.1.0-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a
mirror near you.  This includes the following packages:

-   git
-   git-completion
-   git-cvs
-   git-debuginfo
-   git-email
-   git-gui
-   gitk
-   git-svn
-   gitk

This is an update to take the latest v2.1.0 code from the upstream sources.

Backwards compatibility notes:

 * The default value we give to the environment variable LESS has been
   changed from "FRSX" to "FRX", losing "S" (chop long lines instead
   of wrapping).  Existing users who prefer not to see line-wrapped
   output may want to set

     $ git config core.pager "less -S"

   to restore the traditional behaviour.  It is expected that people
   find output from most subcommands easier to read with the new
   default, except for "blame" which tends to produce really long
   lines.  To override the new default only for "git blame", you can
   do this:

     $ git config pager.blame "less -S"

For other updates, features and fixes in this release, please refer to the
upstream changelog:

    https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt

Known issues:

 * On 64-bit Cygwin, operations involving fetching/pushing from a remote
   repository have been seen to hang in the Git test suite.  Killing and
   restarting the command that fails will normally succeed.

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Git spurious dependency: rsync

[René Berber]

Hello,

Updating cygwin today git version 2.1.0-1 is pulling rsync.

From git's documentation (i.e. no mention of rsync):

"To install Git, you need to have the following libraries that Git
depends on: curl, zlib, openssl, expat, and libiconv."

There's also no mention on the release notes.

Is this a dependency error?
-- 
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Re: Git spurious dependency: rsync

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 11:56 -0500, René Berber wrote:
> Updating cygwin today git version 2.1.0-1 is pulling rsync.
> 
> From git's documentation (i.e. no mention of rsync):
> 
> "To install Git, you need to have the following libraries that Git
> depends on: curl, zlib, openssl, expat, and libiconv."
> 
> There's also no mention on the release notes.
> 
> Is this a dependency error?

No, rsync is required for git archimport.

HTH,
Yaakov



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Re: Git spurious dependency: rsync

[Adam Dinwoodie]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:18:03PM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 11:56 -0500, René Berber wrote:
> > Updating cygwin today git version 2.1.0-1 is pulling rsync.
> > 
> > From git's documentation (i.e. no mention of rsync):
> > 
> > "To install Git, you need to have the following libraries that Git
> > depends on: curl, zlib, openssl, expat, and libiconv."
> > 
> > There's also no mention on the release notes.
> > 
> > Is this a dependency error?
> 
> No, rsync is required for git archimport.

Also, (I suspect) more commonly, for the rsync protocol used for
git-clone and friends.  See under "Git URLs" in `git help clone`.

If you're installing Git by compiling it from source, which is what I
assume the documentation is referring to, the requirements list is very
small; Git will happily compile without features that require the extra
libraries, just without access to those features.  The version of Git
that's distributed pre-compiled from the Cygwin repository mirrors,
however, aims to be feature-complete rather than having minimal
requirements.  As a result, it pulls in a lot of extra packages that
aren't necessary for basic Git functionality.

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Re: Git spurious dependency: rsync

[Steven Penny]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Also, (I suspect) more commonly, for the rsync protocol used for
> git-clone and friends.  See under "Git URLs" in `git help clone`.

I thought libcurl did that...

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Re: Git spurious dependency: rsync

[Adam Dinwoodie]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:02:18PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> > Also, (I suspect) more commonly, for the rsync protocol used for
> > git-clone and friends.  See under "Git URLs" in `git help clone`.
> 
> I thought libcurl did that...

As far as I can tell, libcurl doesn't support the rsync protocol.

Looking at the Git test suite, t5510 will only perform the tests that
check syncing using the rsync protocol if rsync is installed, which
would strongly imply to me that rsync is a requirement to use the
protocol.

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