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Error caused due to regression in git

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From: Darshit Shah <darnir <at> gmail.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: bug-wget <bug-wget <at> gnu.org>, Bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>, 16843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16843: Error caused due to regression in git
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:09:18 +0100

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On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/24/2014 12:53 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > Yay - you confirmed that the solution that works for both versions of
> > git is to ensure that we provide exactly one argument to the foreach
> > command, where that argument gets passed through the shell with
> > identical results.  I'll patch maint.mk shortly.
>
> Actually, it turns out that the problem has already been fixed upstream:
>
> commit 7a0c729aacc3716a665ce3b0c8cb34843bdecc75
> Author: Jim Meyering <meyering <at> fb.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 1 20:25:44 2014 -0800
>
>     maint: fix public-submodule-commit to work with newer git
>
>     * top/maint.mk (public-submodule-commit): Remove excess quoting.
>     We were over-quoting the test arguments, and somewhere prior to
>     version 1.8.5.2.229, git stopped removing those excess quotes,
>     which made the test fail, since the unexpanded strings would
>     always differ; using GIT_TRACE=1 confirmed that the git merge-base
>     command wasn't even being run.
>
> So all that remains now is for the package you were complaining about to
> upgrade to a newer version of gnulib that plays nicely with git 1.9 and
> newer.
>
> Thanks Eric!

I'll notify them of the fact.


-- 
Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

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