Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:34:49PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joel Becker wrote:
> > We've seen that release notes are a poor way to communicate
> > this. What will happen to a 1.4.4 user when they try to access the
> > repository? Corruption, cryptic error message, or clean "this repo is
> > not compatible" message?
>
> There won't be any corruption.
>
> In the best case there will be a message along "x is not supported by
> this version of Git -- please consider upgrading". In the worst case
> it'll say "x is bad".
That would be excellent, especially the former message.
> But you know what? repositories with the change affecting 1.4.4 users
> are _already_ out there and no one complained recently. Anyone pushing
I did, as did people I work with. It's on git-list, even. I'm
pretty sure it corrupted too.
Joel
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