From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 40/43] refs: allow ref backend to be set for clone
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:29:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444094977.7739.24.camel@twopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5612439E.4080200@alum.mit.edu>
On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 11:32 +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> On 09/29/2015 12:02 AM, David Turner wrote:
> > Add a new option, --refs-backend-type, to allow the ref backend type to
> > be set on new clones.
> >
> > Submodules must use the same ref backend as the parent repository, so
> > we also pass the --refs-backend-type option option when cloning
> > submodules.
>
> If I'm reading this correctly, you propose to add a new configuration
> setting,
>
> core.refs-backend-type
>
> to record which reference backend the repository is using.
>
> (By the way, please document any new config settings in
> Documentation/config.txt.)
Fixed, thanks.
> This does not provide adequate backwards compatibility. Suppose I create
> a repository with a DB backend, then later try to access the repository
> using an older version of Git (or JGit or libgit2 or ...) that doesn't
> know about this configuration setting. It will think it is a normal
> repository that only has a couple of references (HEAD, stash, etc). If I
> run `git gc` using the older version of git, *poof* all of the objects
> referred to by other branches will be garbage-collected.
>
> Therefore, I don't think this can be merged without a bump to
> core.repositoryformatversion. Such a bump will tell well-behaved older
> Git clients keep their hands off the repository. (Of course repositories
> that use the files backend can continue using
> core.repositoryformatversion 0.)
>
> I thought Peff proposed a way to do such a bump, including a way to
> extend repositories one by one with new features. But that was something
> that we were chatting about off-list.
>
> I haven't reviewed the actual code in this patch yet but I wanted to get
> the above comment on your radar.
>
> Michael
I'll fix this to upgrade to v=1 when the lmdb refs backend is in use,
and to give sensible error messages in a v1 repo if built without LMDB.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-28 22:01 [PATCH v2 00/43] lmdb ref backend David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 01/43] refs.c: create a public version of verify_refname_available David Turner
2015-10-03 5:02 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-03 16:50 ` David Turner
2015-10-03 21:07 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-04 6:07 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-05 4:29 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-05 20:23 ` David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 02/43] refs: make repack_without_refs and is_branch public David Turner
2015-10-05 4:34 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-05 20:26 ` David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 03/43] refs-be-files.c: rename refs to refs-be-files David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 04/43] refs.c: add a new refs.c file to hold all common refs code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 05/43] refs.c: move update_ref to refs.c David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 06/43] refs.c: move delete_ref and delete_refs to the common code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 07/43] refs.c: move read_ref_at to the common refs file David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 08/43] refs.c: move the hidden refs functions to the common code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 09/43] refs.c: move dwim and friend functions to the common refs code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 10/43] refs.c: move warn_if_dangling_symref* to the common code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 11/43] refs.c: move read_ref, read_ref_full and ref_exists " David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 12/43] refs.c: move resolve_refdup to common David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 13/43] refs.c: move check_refname_format to the common code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 14/43] refs.c: move is_branch " David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 15/43] refs.c: move prettify_refname " David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 16/43] refs.c: move ref iterators " David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 17/43] refs.c: move head_ref_namespaced " David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 18/43] refs-be-files.c: add a backend method structure with transaction functions David Turner
2015-10-05 8:03 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-05 17:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-06 0:20 ` David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 19/43] refs-be-files.c: add methods for misc ref operations David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 20/43] refs-be-files.c: add methods for the ref iterators David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 21/43] refs-be-files.c: add method for for_each_reftype_ David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 22/43] refs-be-files.c: add do_for_each_per_worktree_ref David Turner
2015-10-05 8:19 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-05 20:14 ` David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 23/43] refs.c: move refname_is_safe to the common code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 24/43] refs.h: document make refname_is_safe and add it to header David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 25/43] refs.c: move copy_msg to the common code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 26/43] refs.c: move peel_object " David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 27/43] refs.c: move should_autocreate_reflog to " David Turner
2015-10-02 20:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 28/43] refs.c: add ref backend init function David Turner
2015-10-05 8:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-05 20:37 ` David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 29/43] refs.c: add methods for reflog David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 30/43] refs-be-files.c: add method to expire reflogs David Turner
2015-10-05 8:41 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 31/43] refs.c: add method for initial ref transaction commit David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 32/43] initdb: move safe_create_dir into common code David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 33/43] refs.c: add method for initializing refs db David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 34/43] refs.c: make struct ref_transaction generic David Turner
2015-10-06 17:43 ` Michael Blume
2015-10-06 17:53 ` David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 35/43] refs-be-files.c: add method to rename refs David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 36/43] run-command: track total number of commands run David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 37/43] refs: move some defines from refs-be-files.c to refs.h David Turner
2015-10-05 8:57 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 38/43] refs: make some files backend functions public David Turner
2015-10-05 9:03 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-06 1:24 ` David Turner
2015-10-07 1:25 ` David Turner
2015-10-07 16:00 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-07 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-07 20:55 ` David Turner
2015-10-07 22:47 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 39/43] refs: break out a ref conflict check David Turner
2015-10-05 9:06 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-06 0:28 ` David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 40/43] refs: allow ref backend to be set for clone David Turner
2015-10-05 9:32 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-06 1:29 ` David Turner [this message]
2015-10-06 1:58 ` Jeff King
2015-10-06 18:09 ` David Turner
2015-10-12 9:00 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2015-10-05 11:55 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-06 1:16 ` David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 41/43] refs: add register_refs_backend David Turner
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 42/43] refs: add LMDB refs backend David Turner
2015-10-02 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-05 15:47 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-07 1:51 ` David Turner
2015-10-07 18:31 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-10-07 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-07 19:20 ` David Turner
2015-10-07 22:13 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-09-28 22:02 ` [PATCH v2 43/43] refs: tests for db backend David Turner
2015-10-03 17:39 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2015-10-05 16:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-06 0:20 ` David Turner
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