From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:51:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0
Message-ID: <32541b130807150851v553bca5bo4f61351692c1bc56@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807151623120.8950@racer>

On 7/15/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>  On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>  > Those repos that think that access for Git 1.4 users is important for
>  > them can set indexformat=1.
>
> Unfortunately, you place quite a high maintenance burden on the repository
>  maintainers here.
>
>  From the time balance sheet, it does not look good at all: a few minutes
>  for Junio to change and commit, up to a few hours (because they missed it
>  in the release notes) for probably more than hundred repository
>  maintainers that are not subscribed to the Git mailing list.

To take this in a slightly different direction, what exactly is the
benefit of the new feature?  Apparently my git doesn't have it enabled
by default, and git works fine for me.  Am I missing out on something
that I should feel inferior about if my non-debian-etch running
friends(*) found out about it? :)

Have fun,

Avery

(*) Actually I compile my own git from source anyway.  I never want to
live without "git rebase -i" and "git add -p" ever again.  Life is too
short! :)