update requirements doc to use git 1.8.4
logicminds opened this issue · comments
The requirements say git 1.6.5 but I have git 1.7.1 on my system and I am getting errors with the update mirrors functionality. The error is that whenever prune is called only newer versions of git have this.
I don't know which version but I assume > 1.8.4. I have tested on 2.4.8 and it seems to work.
Seems git prune was first introduced in 2006. After investigation git prune was available in git 1.4.2. I doubt the root of the issue is around git prune not being available. Can you perhaps elaborate on the error you see? Running bash -xe update_mirror.sh mymirror will give more verbose output and quit when an error is encountered.
Here is the error that is performed when doing an update.
-bash-4.1$ more /home/gitmirror/gitlab-mirrors/cron.log
error: unknown option `prune'
usage: git push [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]]
-v, --verbose be more verbose
-q, --quiet be more quiet
--repo <repository> repository
--all push all refs
--mirror mirror all refs
--delete delete refs
--tags push tags (can't be used with --all or --mirror)
-n, --dry-run dry run
--porcelain machine-readable output
-f, --force force updates
--thin use thin pack
--receive-pack <receive-pack>
receive pack program
--exec <receive-pack>
receive pack program
-u, --set-upstream set upstream for git pull/status
--progress force progress reporting
error: unknown option `prune'
Ah, I get it. git push --prune is the option and that wasn't introduced until git v1.8.0. Agreed, the documentation should be updated.
For anybody seeing this error and cannot update to a newer version of git you can disable the prune feature in the gitlab-mirrors config file.
Just released v0.5.2 which is certified with GitLab 8.1.4. master reflects the latest stable release.