From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:41:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add .git/version
Message-ID: <200511171741.23147.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <437CB0CA.6070306@op5.se>

On Thursday 17 November 2005 17:33, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Why? Ideally, the git commands first should check if they can handle the
> > repository format. If they can not handle the version, they should bail
> > out with an error [*]
> > Now suppose we want to release Git 2 without change the repository
> > format at all. Thus, even if Git 1 tool *would* work with repositories
> > created by Git 2, they will fail in the version check!
> > 
> 
> Not that I have an opinion on these changes, but Netscape 7 still 
> handles HTTP 1.1. Just because we up the major-number for git doesn't 
> mean we have to do the same for the repository format version.

Of course we do not want that.
My comment was about this, as the proposed patch installed a
.git/version file with the git version in it, which would lead to
this strange result.

Josef