Re: git vs git

From: Hendrik Visage <hvjunk@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-01-31 16:05:55
On 1/30/06, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/06, Hendrik Visage <hvjunk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > git isn't
> > working because the wrong git is in the right place :(
>
> Well, I just hit this yesterday on a colleage's machine who was trying
> to get going with git.His first try was to `apt-get install git` and
> as that didn't lead anywhere he fetched the git (scm) sources and
> built them.
>
<snip>

> Not sure how to deal with this. Packages already record (or can
> record) it as a conflict, but source built stuff is different. Perhaps
> during `make install` we should try and exec git --version towards the
> end and print a big fat warning?

Or stop the egos and do a name change as would be the honourable way
especially as gitscm is less than a year old...

--
Hendrik Visage
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