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Re: Adding a 'version' command to the server (was: git@vger.kernel.org)

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 28, 2008, 11:43 UTC
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Lea Wiemann, Sat, Jun 28, 2008 01:07:40 +0200:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> It is still possible to connect to older remote end with new clients, but
>> you have to explicitly ask for "git-upload-pack" by using --upload-pack=
>> option when running "git fetch"
>
> Now that the current git won't work with older servers anyway, what  
> about using this opportunity to add a 'version' command to the server?  
> With such a command, such problems would seem to be quite easily  
> avoidable in the future, since the client can discriminate based on the  
> server's version.

And exactly how are the incompatibility problems avoided? By denying the service if the versions don't match?

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Message 6 of 8 in “git@vger.kernel.org”
  1. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  3. Adding a 'version' command to the server (was: git@vger.kernel.org)Lea Wiemann, Jun 27, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  5. Lea WiemannJun 27, 2008
  6. Alex RiesenJun 28, 2008
  7. Lea WiemannJun 28, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceJun 29, 2008

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