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Re: Recent and near future backward incompatibilities

From
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date
Oct 15, 2006, 22:40 UTC
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<20061015224012.GC5092@thunk.org>
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:29:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> It was brought to my attention that the public git.git
> repository cannot be cloned with older versions of git.  More
> precisely, packs generated with post 16854571 (NOT contained in
> v1.4.2.3 but in the current "master" and more importantly in
> v1.4.3-rc3 which I tagged tonight) can contain deltas that are
> not compatible with the version of git before d60fc1c8, which
> means that v1.1.6 and older (v1.2.0 and later are Ok).

By the way, note that Ubuntu Dapper (the current stable version of Ubuntu) is shipped with git version 1.1.3, and that incompatibility extends not to the git repository, but also the Linux-2.6 repostiory at

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
						- Ted
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Message 20 of 22 in “Recent and near future backward incompatibilities”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  2. pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional.Junio C Hamano, Oct 15, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 15, 2006
  4. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  6. Jakub NarebskiOct 15, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 16, 2006
  9. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  10. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  11. A Large Angry SCMOct 15, 2006
  12. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 15, 2006
  14. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2006
  16. Nicolas PitreOct 17, 2006
  17. A Large Angry SCMOct 15, 2006
  18. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  20. Theodore TsoOct 15, 2006
  21. Linus TorvaldsOct 15, 2006
  22. Stephen HemmingerOct 16, 2006

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