On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 04:33:52PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > I'm a little confused. Is the instruction on " > > https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git"; not the > > official one? As you can see there, the first part is how to install > > git with your package manager (git-all). > > That is probably out of date, and I'd suggest reporting it to the > appropriate spot, which is _probably_ https://github.com/git/git-scm.com > (although it might be a separate repo). The git-all package has had > this problem for some time now, so I wouldn't recommend it as the > default option. The book content gets pulled in from a separate repo via an automated process. The right spot here is https://github.com/progit/progit2. We do recommend just "apt install git" on the downloads page: https://git-scm.com/download/linux though that has created occasional confusion, too (e.g., some people expect gitk). > > Should I remove everything form "git-all" and reinstall everything > > according to your advise? It seems no git daemon is working right now > > (systemctl | grep git). > > If everything's working for you, there's no need to change it. It's > _possible_ to install git-all and not have this problem, but because of > the way modern versions of Debian and the packages in question are > configured it ends up tending to have this problem by default. > > In this case, it may be that git-daemon is installed but not configured > to start, or it may have been removed when you reinstalled GNOME since > it's not a hard dependency. Yeah. I think fundamentally this is a packaging issue. It looks like "git-daemon-*" has been downgraded to "Suggests" in Debian unstable. It looks like this was done in 1:2.26.0-2 last April. From the changelog: * debian/control: downgrade Recommends by git-all on git-daemon-run to Suggests. The git-all package is a "batteries included" full installation of Git. Automatically running a daemon is not useful to most of its users. So they are already aware of and addressed the problem, but older releases will still show it. -Peff
