From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:34:12 GMT Subject: Re: support for large packs and 64-bit offsets Message-ID: <20070409183412.GY5436@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Once Junio merges the series in a branch of its own, we could have a > separate patch not in that branch that simply forces those features on > in branch 'next'. People would only need to remenber not publishing > repos with that version using dumb protocols. Better to force features by config file option or command line option, then by code hacked into a branch. This way we can enable the feature all of the time in a test case, and push it. E.g. the sliding window controls; nobody really uses them in practice (I don't think anyway) but they are handy in the test cases to force particular conditions, without creating huge temporary packfiles. -- Shawn.