install: Fails with git < 1.7.10

[ssreekanth]

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install)"
==> This script will install:
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/bin/brew
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/Library/...
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/share/doc/homebrew
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/share/man/man1/brew.1
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/etc/bash_completion.d/brew
/home/testuser/.cache/Homebrew/

Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> Downloading and installing Linuxbrew...
error: could not lock config file /home/testuser/.linuxbrew/.git/config: No such file or directory
==> Tapping homebrew/core
error: unknown option `config'
usage: git clone [options] [--] <repo> [<dir>]

    -v, --verbose         be more verbose
    -q, --quiet           be more quiet
    --progress            force progress reporting
    -n, --no-checkout     don't create a checkout
    --bare                create a bare repository
    --mirror              create a mirror repository (implies bare)
    -l, --local           to clone from a local repository
    --no-hardlinks        don't use local hardlinks, always copy
    -s, --shared          setup as shared repository
    --recursive           initialize submodules in the clone
    --template <path>     path the template repository
    --reference <repo>    reference repository
    -o, --origin <branch>
                          use <branch> instead of 'origin' to track upstream
    -b, --branch <branch>
                          checkout <branch> instead of the remote's HEAD
    -u, --upload-pack <path>
                          path to git-upload-pack on the remote
    --depth <depth>       create a shallow clone of that depth

Error: Failure while executing: git clone https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-core /home/testuser/.linuxbrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core --config core.autocrlf=false --depth=1
Failed during: /home/testuser/.linuxbrew/bin/brew tap homebrew/core

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
$ git --version
git version 1.7.1

git clone doesn't seem to have --config option in version 1.7.1

I was wondering if I can't install linuxbrew on older centos 6.5, how can i install newer packages on older distribution.

FYI, I can't upgrade git on this server, as I do not have permissions to do so.

Highly appreciate it, If you could fix the linuxbrew install script to handle it. 👍

[DoomHammer]

Probably a wontfix as in Linuxbrew/legacy-linuxbrew#1071 . I am working on a workaround for this. This is a plain CentOS 6.5, right? I will test my WA there.

[ssreekanth]

Yes it's a plain CentOS 6.5 with git already installed.

[sjackman]

We definitely want the Linuxbrew installer to work with older Git, particularly for CentOS 6, which is quite popular. It needs to work just long enough to bootstrap the system and brew install git.

[sjackman]

Fixed!