I'm inclined to say get a newer version of Git. We only barely support 10.6. The -q flag is important.

Most of the git additions over the years are little convenience flags that were always possible written in a different way previously, so to a small extent I'd like for us to go out of our way to support common git versions in the wild.

I think we should still support the default git on OS X 10.8. I don't have opinions on 10.7. But I agree that 10.6 is too old to care.

We should at least put a check in the tool to check that we're running a
new-enough version.

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Most of the git additions over the years are little convenience flags that
were always possible written in a different way previously, so to a small
extent I'd like for us to go out of our way to support common git versions
in the wild.

I think we should still support the default git on OS X 10.8. I don't have
opinions on 10.7. But I agree that 10.6 is too old to care.

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And we probably should test using the oldest version of git supported
in the non -short test.

Andrew, IIRC, you maintain the 10.7 builders, what version of git is
installed on those builders?

I agree 10.6 is too old to support, but 10.7 is probably still used.

I'll check once I get the machine back online tomorrow.

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And we probably should test using the oldest version of git supported
in the non -short test.

Andrew, IIRC, you maintain the 10.7 builders, what version of git is
installed on those builders?

I agree 10.6 is too old to support, but 10.7 is probably still used.

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I also hit this bug on the default Debian version on GCE (Wheezy), which includes git version 1.7.10.4.

For others in that situation:

I added:

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main

to /etc/apt/sources.list

And then ran:

sudo apt-get install git/wheezy-backports

There has not been much outcry for this in the past year. Let's just wait this one out.