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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:16 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999999.0712171646230.8467@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071217213049.GG13515@fieldses.org>

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> By the way, just as a data point: I do keep some git repositories on
> NFS, and access them from multiple machines with different git versions
> (not on purpose--it's just that the machines don't all run the same
> distro, so it'd be extra work to give them all the same version).  I
> don't use anything older than 1.5.0.  If the repository became unusable
> on one of those machines without warning it'd be annoying.

What the v1.5.5 release notes will say is that you'll have to set 
pack.indexversion=1 to remain compatible with pre-1.5.2 Git versions.  

And even if you forget about it then there'll be a simple way to regain 
compatibility after the facts.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-02 22:04 v1.5.4 plans Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 22:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-02 22:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 23:39 ` David Symonds
2007-12-03  2:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 10:00     ` Many things pushed out to 'master' Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 11:12       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 18:19         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 18:39           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 20:58             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 22:44               ` [PATCH] fast-export: rename the signed tag mode 'ignore' to 'verbatim' Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 22:56                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03  9:06   ` [PATCH] Fix quote_path when called with negative length Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-03 17:18     ` Jeff King
2007-12-03 18:06 ` v1.5.4 plans Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-03 21:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14  3:32     ` [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14  5:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 13:14         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 12:45       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-14 13:38         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 21:52           ` Joel Becker
2007-12-14 22:34             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 22:39               ` Joel Becker
2007-12-14 22:46                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-15  0:42                   ` Joel Becker
2007-12-15  1:08                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-15  1:21                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-15  1:43                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-15  2:23                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 20:09                       ` Joel Becker
2007-12-17 20:41                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 21:13                           ` Joel Becker
2007-12-17 21:30                             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 21:52                               ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-12-17 21:57                                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 22:15                                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 22:17                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 22:30                                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 22:55                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18  0:04                                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 23:13                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 21:16                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 21:45                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18  0:41                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18  2:23                                 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-12-18  3:23                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18  3:52                                   ` Martin Langhoff
2007-12-18  4:09                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18  5:01                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18  9:24                                       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-18 12:03                                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 14:16                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 11:11                                       ` Jeff King
2007-12-18 12:06                                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 12:48                                           ` Jeff King
2007-12-18 13:30                                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 19:30                                               ` Jeff King
2007-12-18 20:12                                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 13:47                                           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-18 20:24                                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18  2:15                           ` Mark Fasheh
2007-12-18  3:34                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-04  0:48 ` v1.5.4 plans Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-14 11:28 [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes linux
2007-12-14 15:20 ` Nicolas Pitre

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