"pass git init" fails because "git -C" not supported in current git release

[Joel Pettersson]

git 1.8 was originally released over six years ago [1]. See if you can 
find a more recent version. For instance, Debian stable currently has 
git 2.11 [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Releases
[2]: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/git

On fre, Nov 23, 2018 at 6:00 PM, John Wilkes <john at wilkes.com> wrote:
> I am a pass noob; apologies if this has been asked and answered 
> already,
> but I didn't see a way to easily search the list archives.
> 
> Looks like the git "-C" option is not in the latest version of git.
> Initializing the password store as a git repository fails:
> 
> $ pass git init
> Unknown option: -C
> usage: git [--version] [--help] [-c name=value]
>            [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] 
> [--info-path]
>            [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
>            [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] 
> [--namespace=<name>]
>            <command> [<args>]
> $ git --version
> git version 1.8.3.1
> $ pass version
> ============================================
> = pass: the standard unix password manager =
> =                                          =
> =                  v1.7.3                  =
> =                                          =
> =             Jason A. Donenfeld           =
> =               Jason at zx2c4.com            =
> =                                          =
> =      http://www.passwordstore.org/       =
> ============================================
> 
> 
> 
> --
> John Wilkes
> john at wilkes.com
> 
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