Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Upgrading Git

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:52:26PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I didn't upgrade git lately, I see that there's a few 4th-decimal
> > (bugfix?) versions out (1.5.0.6) and 1.5.1 is nearly released.
> >
> > Do you think it's ok to upgrade when the next version comes out? Is
> > there anything we should check before upgrading git?
> 
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> An upgrade would be great.
> If you build it yourself, "make test" is sufficient
> as a pre-install check, as far as I'm concerned.
> Otherwise, I think you can be confident that the
> distribution process included that.

Using 'make test' just in case is a good idea :)

I guess upgrades should be backward compatible, that was my main
concern.

-- 
Sylvain