[rancid] Rancid 3.1.99 Alpha git integration issues.

[heasley]

Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:59:58PM +0000, Thomas Greer:
> If I fancy compiling git from scratch, sure, but that’s the latest debian has. Let me try again.

the process seems layed-out here:
http://tecadmin.net/install-git-2-0-on-centos-rhel-fedora/

maybe one of these other rpm repos has a newer git?
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?action=show&redirect=Repositories

> > On 12 Mar 2015, at 21:57, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 06:42:59PM +0000, Thomas Greer:
> >> Is the following output expected then?
> > 
> > no; i receive no such errors.  if you started with a totally clean env,
> > there is a variance between even 1.7.1 and 1.7.11.4.  i'm not a git user;
> > you apparently are, so whats wrong with this:
> > 
> >            git init --bare $CVSROOT/$GROUP
> >            git clone $CVSROOT/$GROUP .
> >            git config --global user.name RANCiD
> >            git config --global user.email $USER$MAILDOMAIN
> >            git config --global push.default current
> > 
> > its clones it fine, commits fine, why wouldnt it push w/o specifying a
> > branch?  i dont want to specify a branch; i expect a user may clone sth.
> > specific and pushes should just go to that branch - which is what

or what command provides the branch name of the clone, which can then be
passed to push?

> > "current" seems like its intended to do and seems to work in the previously
> > mentioned versions.
> > 
> > can't you just install sth. more recent and move on?  1.7.1 doesnt even
> > appear to be available anymore.  even the debian pkg is more than 2 years
> > old.
>