[CentOS-devel] git upgrade

Sun Oct 26 14:41:24 UTC 2014
Jacob Yundt <jyundt at gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Trevor Hemsley
> <trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> On 26/10/14 10:44, cybernet wrote:
>>
>> is anyone interesed in upgrading git ?
>> 1.7.1 is too old
>>
>>
>> You'd need to raise a bugzilla on bugzilla.redhat.com to ask them to do so.
>> While you wait for the ticket to be closed you can install the IUS Community
>> repo and install the git18\* packages that you need from there.
>
> Or jump to CentOS 7. I've been through similar issues with Subversion
> and Samba and a stack of perl based components, and it's an ongoing
> issue with any stable, "enterprise" operating system.


Would SCLs be a viable option?  It appears that SCL 1.2 has git 1.9.4[1].

-Jacob

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/1-Beta/html-single/1.2_Release_Notes/index.html#sect-RHSCL-Features