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Bug 585990

Summary:	Please upgrade to git-1.7.x
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Todd Zullinger <tmz>
Component:	git	Assignee:	Adam Tkac <atkac>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	asersen, azelinka, ddumas, gholms, joshkayse, notting, npajkovs, ovasik
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Rebase
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	git-1.7.1-1.el6	Doc Type:	Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements
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Last Closed:	2010-11-10 20:28:39 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	600411

Description Todd Zullinger 2010-04-26 15:32:49 UTC

In RHEL6 beta, git-1.6.5.2 is included.  Previously, git was provided for EL-5 via EPEL.  We'd like to rebase the EL-5 package from 1.5.5.6 to 1.7.x (or at least 1.6.6.x) but this would cause problems for those upgrading from RHEL5 to RHEL6.  There are a significant number of bugs fixed since 1.6.5.2 (see the release notes for details¹).  There is one feature of 1.6.6 and above that stands out IMO as making it a worthy update, "smart" http support.  This allows push and pull via http without the penalty of older versions versus using the git protocol.

Git generally moves fairly fast, and maintains stability well.  Shipping RHEL6 with a version that's already 6 months old will make it seem pretty old right out of the gate.

Thanks,
An EPEL-5 git maintainer

¹ http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/

Comment 2 Josh 2010-04-26 16:54:49 UTC

I would like to see this updated to 1.7 for RHEL6.
Thanks!

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-04-26 17:16:55 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 4 Nikola Pajkovsky 2010-05-04 12:22:23 UTC

Me too.

Thanks.

Comment 5 Todd Zullinger 2010-06-03 18:32:10 UTC

If it helps at all, I built 1.7.1 packages for EL-5 and EL-6 a few weeks back.

http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/packages/epel/

Comment 8 Josh 2010-06-10 13:20:18 UTC

By becoming assigned does that mean git 1.7 will be available in RHEL6 at some point?

Thanks!

Comment 9 Denise Dumas 2010-06-10 13:25:35 UTC

This bz is approved - it has 3 acks (not sure if you can see them). The acks, rather than being assigned, say that it will show up in RHEL6 (barring some unforeseen/catastrophic bug).

Comment 10 Adam Tkac 2010-06-10 14:14:05 UTC

(In reply to comment #8)
> By becoming assigned does that mean git 1.7 will be available in RHEL6 at some
> point?

I just built git-1.7.1-1.el6 which will appear in RHEL 6.

Comment 13 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 20:28:39 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.