git 1.6

Git commit mail (debian)

Submitted by chris on Sun, 2009-01-04 13:34

With the backported git 1.6 packages installed (see Backport git 1.6 for debian) - to add mailing lists for commits/tags:

Submitted by chris on Tue, 2008-12-30 00:13

git 1.6 is available in debian experimental. I want to use it under debian stable (etch).

Let's backport it.

Kudos to Steve Kemp for walking me through this.

First you need dget installed:

aptitude install devscripts

Now - let's grab the experimental source and unpack it:

dget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/git-core/git-core_1.6.0.6-1.dsc dpkg-source -x *.dsc

Let's take a look - change into the directory: