On Debian, git 1.4.4 is still shipped in the stable distribution. Since e5fc9a0aea2c3c49829b5cdf499339e5c759706b, simply running make in a git checkout yields to an error message. The error is in GIT-VERSION-GEN: | + git diff-index --quiet HEAD | usage: git-diff-index [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...] | common diff options: | -z output diff-raw with lines terminated with NUL. | -p output patch format. | -u synonym for -p. | --patch-with-raw | output both a patch and the diff-raw format. | --stat show diffstat instead of patch. | --numstat show numeric diffstat instead of patch. | --patch-with-stat | output a patch and prepend its diffstat. | --name-only show only names of changed files. | --name-status show names and status of changed files. | --full-index show full object name on index lines. | --abbrev=<n> abbreviate object names in diff-tree header and diff-raw. | -R swap input file pairs. | -B detect complete rewrites. | -M detect renames. | -C detect copies. | --find-copies-harder | try unchanged files as candidate for copy detection. | -l<n> limit rename attempts up to <n> paths. | -O<file> reorder diffs according to the <file>. | -S<string> find filepair whose only one side contains the string. | --pickaxe-all | show all files diff when -S is used and hit is found. | -a --text treat all files as text. The problem is not critical, as the build process continues with wrong version information. mfg Martin Kögler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
