Subject: Re: Release 13 of the PostgreSQL BuildFarm client
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: buildfarm-members@postgresql.org
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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 08:47:04 -0400
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On 8/2/21 7:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> I have pushed Release 13 of the PostgreSQL BuildFarm client.
> FYI, this seems to have broken compatibility with ancient versions
> of git.  prairiedog and gaur/pademelon are both using
> git version 1.7.9.6, and they both choked on the --prune-tags
> option.  I tried removing that, as it seemed possibly unnecessary,
> but it didn't improve matters.
>
> I suppose I'm overdue to update git on these machines, but anyone
> else running dinosaur versions may want to be cautious.


Not so much dinosaurs either. I just tried on Centos 7 which isn't that
old, and got a failure. Not just from the prune-tags but from 'git
ls-remote' not supporting symref. I will come up with a solution in a
couple of days, but for now please don't deploy unless you have a fairly
modern git. If you do deploy, be prepared to roll back.


cheers


andrew


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