From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:04:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add .git/version
Message-ID: <200511171704.15503.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511171634460.17319@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Thursday 17 November 2005 16:38, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> But yes, it might be handy to know at some time. But I think it would make 
> sense to add .git/version *then*, because you can distinguish repositories 
> before/after the change by testing for .git/version.

No, as old git tools then still could corrupt a repository with a new format,
as they currently do not check any kind of format version; it would work if
the git 1 tools would bail out if a .git/version is found ;-)

Josef