From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:30:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] am: terminate state files with a newline
Message-ID: <20150823143055.Horde.3dpHsKGqU554G1p_Uz_Iiw1@webmail.informatik.kit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20150823055053.GA15849@yoshi.chippynet.com>

Hi,

Quoting Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>:

> Did we ever explictly allow external programs to poke around the
> contents of the .git/rebase-apply directory? I think it may not be so
> good, as it means that it may not be possible to switch the storage
> format in the future (e.g. to allow atomic modifications, maybe?) :-/ .

Think of e.g. libgit2, JGit/EGit and all the other git implementations.
They should be able to look everywhere in .git, shouldn't they?

I don't think we will just "switch" the storage format of any parts of the
repo.  Whatever new formats may come (ref backends, index v5, pack v4),
they will be an opt-in feature for a long time before becoming default,
and there must be an even longer deprecation period before the old format
gets phased out, if ever.


Gábor