It would be very helpful to have git package also in RHEL 5, similarly as it is present in RHEL 6. My main reason is to be able to use more sensible patch management when building official packages even for RHEL 5. Refer to [1]. Currently, git is available at EPEL, which does not help in this scenario. I think many others would benefit from this. Also it comes strange to me that both cvs and subversion are included in the base channel, but git, now pretty popular, is sidetracked in EPEL. Please, consider the significance of git. [1] http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/nice-rpm-git-patch-management-trick/
From my point of view it's easy to include git as new RHEL-5 pkg. We can just pick RHEL-6 git and build it for el5.
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Perhaps it could be considered for 5.10?
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M'kay, EPEL works fine to some extent.