The HACKING file mentions git version 1.4.4 or later is required. But
'./bootstrap' assumes 1.6.4 or later (which is also ancient [1]):
commit ac8c4111ce570e140c819f231493fa573d3b0904
Author: Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Apr 14 00:08:50 2024 +0200
Commit: Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sun Apr 14 00:08:50 2024 +0200
bootstrap: Simplify git submodule initialization.
* top/bootstrap-funclib.sh (prepare_GNULIB_SRCDIR): Err out if git is
older than version 1.6.4. Remove fallback code for older versions.
* build-aux/bootstrap: Regenerated.
I pushed the attached patch to update HACKING. The rest of the file
looks up-to-date.
Collin
[1] https://github.com/git/git/commit/0a53e9ddeaddad63ad106860237bbf53411d11a7
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From: Collin Funk <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:53:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update git version documented in HACKING
* HACKING: Mention that git version 1.6.4 or later is required since
'./bootstrap' will fail otherwise.
---
HACKING | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 0c8205fb0..f07903844 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Prerequisites
You will need the "git" version control tools. On Fedora-based
systems, do "yum install git". On Debian-based ones install the
"git-core" package. Then run "git --version". If that says it's
-older than version 1.4.4, then you'd do well to get a newer version.
+older than version 1.6.4, then you'd do well to get a newer version.
At worst, just download the latest stable release from
https://git-scm.com/ and build from source.
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2.50.1
