From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 23:49:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow OFS_DELTA objects during a push
Message-ID: <7v4ow4v0xl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0905011616130.6741@xanadu.home>

Thanks.

The code looks correct, I am reasonably sure updated server-client
combination would work fine, and use of the capability mechanism means
other combinations like old pusher and new receiver, and/or new pusher and
old receiver, should be also Ok.

I see Shawn did the same to jgit.

But I'd like to queue this in 'next', and make it official after 1.6.3
happens.

I just do not want to repeat silly mistakes, this close to the final,
similar to the "github needs to get stuck forever at 1.6.1" we made with
40c155f (push: prepare sender to receive extended ref information from the
receiver, 2008-09-09); it was done as a good change after a discussion
among Shawn, Daniel and I.  We managed to botch it and had to later fix
with 02322e1 (send-pack: do not send unknown object name from ".have" to
pack-objects, 2009-01-27).

(references)

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/95351
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/95072
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107417/focus=107500