Ruby on Rails

On 23 February 2016 at 10:43, krfg <fangorn72@yahoo.it> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 10:15:27 AM UTC+1, Colin Law wrote:
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>> Glad to hear you are up and running.
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>> > I also updated Git as suggested by Laith Shadeed, because it seemed
>> > necessary.
>>
>> I am interested to know why you decided to do that. I have always
>> just used git from the Ubuntu repository and never knowingly had any
>> problems.
>>
>> Colin
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> I checked Git version in my Ubuntu distribution and compared with the last
> official release.
> I found that the gap was high and so I only thought that an update could be
> a good choice.
> An article at lifeonubuntu.com suggests an upgrade, because of
> incompatibility issues with GitHub.com.

The link there is to a blog in 2011 referring to git versions before 1.6.6.

> In a askubuntu.com question a user points out about "a security flaw in Git,
> which was fixed in version 2.2.1.". My Git version was well below 2.2.1.
> I hope I made a good decision...

Any serious security hole in git would be rapidly patched in the
version in an LTS version of Ubuntu, however a comment on the link
suggests it is not problem on Linux.

Obviously, however, there should be no harm in installing the latest
version. Did you install from the PPA or build it yourself?

Colin

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