Re: Release 13 of the PostgreSQL BuildFarm client

On 8/2/21 7:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)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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