From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:43:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Adding a 'version' command to the server (was: git@vger.kernel.org)
Message-ID: <20080628114337.GA3489@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <486572BC.9070201@gmail.com>

Lea Wiemann, Sat, Jun 28, 2008 01:07:40 +0200:
> 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?