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: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 21:50:19 -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.


Ouch.


--prune-tags possibly is unnecessary. What happens when you remove it
from the code?


I will test tomorrow or Wednesday on a Centos5 docker  - there is an
image on dockerhub with git 1.6.


cheers


andrew


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