Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote:
> I had this only on svn, as I did not want to risk having
> problems in 2008.1 about it.
>
> If you used the git package, now it is named gnu-git,
> and you will need to explicitly reinstall it on an upgrade.
>
> If you used the linus-git package, now it is named just
> git, and an update should not cause any problems, as the
> new git package also provides linus-git.
>
> Also, now both packages can be installed at the same
> time, but "gnu-git" commands were all changed to have the
> "gnu-" prefix.

I fixed some obsolete/conflict issues with these.

The switch should now be handled automatically, without need to
reinstall anything, no matter whether linus-git or git was previously
installed.

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Anssi Hannula