Re: What's in git.git

Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:12:36AM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] said that...

This unfortunately means that I cannot test gitweb based on 'master'
branch using _released_ git core, git version 1.4.3.3, as it doesn't have
git-for-each-ref nor git-show-ref.

BTW. do people often use latest gitweb with older git binaries? Should
we try to wait for core feature to mature to released version before using
it in gitweb? Or perhaps we should add some kind of version checking, and
provide workrounds, e.g. using $ENV{GIT_DIR} if git core doesn't support
--git-dir option, pathlimit filtering using git-rev-list piped to 
git-diff-tree --stdin in git_history if there is no --full-history
option, show always HEAD activity if there is no git-for-each-ref
etc.; well the latest we can do without checking for git core version, just

        if -x qx($GIT --exec-path)/git-for-each-ref

I can't imagine a situation where you would _want_ to use latest gitweb
but refuse to use older git binaries - can you explain why do you want
to do that?

If you don't want to install the latest master systemwide, that's
reasonable, but you can just keep the latest master for the gitweb
script and/or your personal use.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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