From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:30:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes
Message-ID: <20071217213049.GG13515@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071217211317.GC19816@mail.oracle.com>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:13:18PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> 	Sure, we're not complaining about that.  We complain some about
> the fast pace (at the time he had his problem, 1.4 installs were not
> unusual, and Junio's response suggested that "I use NFS" wasn't strongly
> considered as a use case), but more we complain about the obscurity of
> the reason.  If it's obvious what happened (not the specifics, just
> "please upgrade" or "repository format changed" or something), the user
> moves along.

By the way, just as a data point: I do keep some git repositories on
NFS, and access them from multiple machines with different git versions
(not on purpose--it's just that the machines don't all run the same
distro, so it'd be extra work to give them all the same version).  I
don't use anything older than 1.5.0.  If the repository became unusable
on one of those machines without warning it'd be annoying.

---b.