Re: Bug: Branch Deletion Doesn't Clean Up

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 4, 2016, 08:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20160204082911.GA23479@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160204082613.GA14076@glandium.org>

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:26:13PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:

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> > There are a few reasons not to:
> > 
> >   - it breaks backwards compatibility (unless we continue to create the
> >     directory in order to put the dot-lock in it, but then I don't think
> >     we've gained anything)
> 
> Is that the kind of backwards compatibility that matters, though? I
> mean, I won't claim to know all the internals of how refs are used, but
> you sound like the theoretical incompatibility would be two different
> versions of git racing for update-ref on the same local repository.

Yes, that's true. It's a lesser breakage than "you cannot go back to the old version at all".

-Peff