From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: .gitignore and minimum Git version
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:27:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141201172751.GA31384@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547CA453.6010706@cs.ucla.edu>
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>:
> Which raises the issue: what should be the minimum version of git
> that we assume for Emacs developers? I suggest that we assume Git
> 1.7.1 (April 2010) or later, as that's the oldest Git that is still
> likely to be in widespread use -- it's shipped with CentOS 6, for
> example.
I concur, 1.7.1 is a suitable baseline.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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