Re: [PATCH] Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt: Expand on the incompatible packfiles

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2008, 17:40 UTC
Message-ID: <200807171940.06288.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080717172051.GY32184@machine.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:10:32PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > Petr Baudis wrote:
> > 
> > > +introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5.  If you want to keep your repositories
> > > +backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
> > > +to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.
> > 
> > 'or'? Not 'and'?
> > 
> > You shouldn't have, I think, this "respectively" here.  You need it only
> > if you are writing "a, b, c, then a', b', c', respectively".
> 
> The "respectively" means that the two options relate each to one of the
> two new features.

Sorry, I have forgot that "respectively" might refer to the context which I don't see in a patch.

> I'm unclear about the 'or'-'and' question, though.

If you want to be backwards compatibile with pre v1.4.4.5 clients, do you have to set either option, or both options, or what? The same with pre v1.5.2 client...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland