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Refuse to build with git older than 1.7.1.1, which is needed for git checkout -B

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Joey Hess 2014-01-13 15:17:48 -04:00
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> git-annex checks the git version at compile time and arranges to use
> commands that will work with that version of git at run time.
>
> Adding a runtime check for a minimum git version would slow every git-annex
> command down and so I don't want to do it. It's up to the user to not
> built git-annex with a new version of git and then try to use it with an
> old version of git.
>
> `git checkout -B` seems to have been added to git quite a long time ago
> (2010), in version 1.7.1.1. I've made git-annex check at compile
> time if being built with such an old version and refuse to build.
> [[done]]. --[[Joey]]