Re: [coreboot] make gitconfig not working for me with git 1.9.1

[Nico Huber]

On 25.02.2018 09:23, Mike Banon wrote:
> just upgrade your git? 1.9.1 is a little bit old

You probably mean, "just" upgrade every git of every system that is used
for coreboot development. Ubuntu 14.04 (which is still maintained btw.)
might not be the only active distribution with an old git version.
> Although I am unsure if there is anything newer for ubuntu 14.04
> since it is very outdated and everyone switched to 16.04 LTS or later.
> Maybe you would have to compile a new git from source if you don't
> want / can't reinstall OS

Well, we could discuss to add Git to our crossgcc script if you'd like
to maintain that.

Nico
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:10 AM,   wrote:
> > Errors I receive on command-line strongly point to this commit:
> >
> > commit fda071ca7a17614a58c0812c28b14a417471b915
> > Author: Alex Thiessen 
> > Date:   Sat Jan 13 17:05:31 2018 +0000
> > util/gitconfig: Make gitconfig.sh support gitfile
> >
> >
> > Ubuntu host, 14.04
> >
> > mturney@mturney-linux:/local/mnt/workspace/mturney/gitrepos/public/coreboot$
> > make gitconfig
> > fatal: ambiguous argument 'hooks': unknown revision or path not in the
> > working tree.
> > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
> > 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
> > mkdir: unrecognized option '--git-path
> > hooks'
> > Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.
> > util/gitconfig/gitconfig.sh: line 33: --git-path
> > hooks/commit-msg: No such file or directory
> > chmod: unrecognized option '--git-path
> > hooks/commit-msg'
> > Try 'chmod --help' for more information.
> > util/gitconfig/gitconfig.sh: line 33: --git-path
> > hooks/pre-commit: No such file or directory
> > chmod: unrecognized option '--git-path
> > hooks/pre-commit'
> > Try 'chmod --help' for more information.
> > fatal: ambiguous argument 'hooks': unknown revision or path not in the
> > working tree.
> > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
> > 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
> > fatal: ambiguous argument 'hooks': unknown revision or path not in the
> > working tree.
> > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
> > 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
> > fatal: ambiguous argument 'hooks': unknown revision or path not in the
> > working tree.
> > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
> > 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
> > mturney@mturney-linux:/local/mnt/workspace/mturney/gitrepos/public/coreboot$