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Bug 62519 - Upgrade git > 1.7
Upgrade git > 1.7
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Git/Gerrit (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Depends on: ubuntu-trusty
Blocks:
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Reported: 2014-03-11 01:28 UTC by Gabriel Wicke
Modified: 2014-04-14 10:43 UTC (History)
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Description Gabriel Wicke 2014-03-11 01:28:31 UTC 
Git 1.7.9 has an annoying bug in that it uses absolute paths when initializing submodules. In the best case, this breaks git within the submodule when the full checkout is transferred to another host. In the worst case, it leads to incorrect git behavior within the submodule.

This affects parsoid round-trip testing. We currently use rsync to distribute the code from the central checkout, which provokes this issue. Clients are checking the git revision of the submodule and exit if it has changed. They also report the revision to the round-trip test server. In the worst case this means that test results are attributed to the wrong revision.

This was fixed in git 1.7.10, March 2012:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192173
Comment 1 Chad H. 2014-03-11 02:37:04 UTC 
This would mean backporting the git package from a newer Ubuntu release, that's up to ops :)

If the only complaint is submodule init I don't think it's worth it IMHO.
Comment 2 Sam Reed (reedy) 2014-04-14 10:41:05 UTC 
14.04 has 1.9
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