From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: v1.5.4 plans Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:23:04 -0800 Message-ID: <7vsl2jh3rb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vk5nwu51x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 03 22:24:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IzIlg-00033P-6Z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:23:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752557AbXLCVXM (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:23:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752301AbXLCVXL (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:23:11 -0500 Received: from sceptre.pobox.com ([207.106.133.20]:33502 "EHLO sceptre.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbXLCVXK (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:23:10 -0500 Received: from sceptre (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sceptre.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4992A2FA; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:23:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FC19C6BF; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:23:28 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:06:49 -0500 (EST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre writes: > Two things I would like to see in the next version (1.5.5) as well, for > which we could provide early warnings now: > > - repack.usedeltabaseoffset defaulting to true > > - pack.indexversion defaulting to 2 I think the former would be sensible, the latter I fear might be a bit too new but I do not recall the exact version dependency. Could you draft a patch to ReleaseNotes to explain the consequences of these changes using ordinary user's vocabulary, like: Starting v1.5.5, repack.usedeltabaseoffset will default to true, which will give denser packfile (i.e. more efficient storage). The downside is that git older than version X will not be able to use a repository packed using this setting.