From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:33:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add .git/version
Message-ID: <437CB0CA.6070306@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <200511171644.48438.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 14:25, Martin Atukunda wrote:
> 
> As .git/version is part of the repository, it should contain the version
> of the repository format used. Do you really want to link the version
> of the repository format with the version of git which created the
> repository? It think it is better to detach a repository version from
> version of git.
> 
> Why? Ideally, the git commands first should check if they can handle the
> repository format. If they can not handle the version, they should bail
> out with an error [*]
> Now suppose we want to release Git 2 without change the repository
> format at all. Thus, even if Git 1 tool *would* work with repositories
> created by Git 2, they will fail in the version check!
> 

Not that I have an opinion on these changes, but Netscape 7 still 
handles HTTP 1.1. Just because we up the major-number for git doesn't 
mean we have to do the same for the repository format version.

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