From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .gitignore and minimum Git version Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:27:51 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141201172751.GA31384@thyrsus.com> References: <547CA453.6010706@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417454921 19899 80.91.229.3 (1 Dec 2014 17:28:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 17:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Emacs development discussions To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 18:28:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XvUm2-0007lQ-Oy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:28:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32930 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvUm2-0006Zc-CG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37067) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvUlu-0006W5-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:28:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvUlq-0003nM-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:59664 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvUlq-0003nG-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:28:22 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF79A383362; Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:27:51 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <547CA453.6010706@cs.ucla.edu> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178604 Archived-At: Paul Eggert : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond