Re: [PATCH] Ask for "git program" even against git-daemon

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 25, 2008, 23:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20080625232727.GU11793@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6alw28s.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> This drops backward compatibility support to ask for "git-program"
> form when talking to git-daemon.  Now all git native requests use
> "git program" form over ssh, local and git transports.
> 
> This needs to be held back until everybody runs git-daemon from 1.5.6.1 or
> 1.6.0 or newer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
>  * According to the roadmap we exchanged earlier, this should happen in a
>    major release (that increments the second dewey-decimal digit from the
>    left) that ships at least 6 months after 1.5.6.1 and 1.6.0 (which will
>    have the "git daemon preparation" patch included) are released.

Agreed about holding back.

But I wonder if this patch is even worth it at some later point in time. Are we also going to change git-daemon to stop accepting "git-" form? Is it a worthwhile change?

-- 
Shawn.