From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Stop producing index version 2
Message-ID: <7v4nv4a131.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1328507319-24687-3-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> read-cache.c learned to produce version 2 or 3 depending on whether
> extended cache entries exist in 06aaaa0 (Extend index to save more flags
> - 2008-10-01), first released in 1.6.1. The purpose is to keep
> compatibility with older git. It's been more than three years since
> then and git has reached 1.7.9. Drop support for older git.

Cc'ing this, as I suspect this would surely raise eyebrows of some people
who wanted to get rid of the version 3 format.