Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 15, 2008, 22:33 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd4lezske.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807160005540.2990@eeepc-johanness>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> What troubles me the most is that you seem to be forgetting that we are 
>> using git to manage our codebase.
>
> I don't.  I have vivid memories of updating an ancient git repository of 
> Git itself, which had some almost forgotten changes in it.  That was in 
> the bad old days, when the version number did not even have a "1" in it.
>
> It could not even fetch the current git.git.
>
> I do _not_ want that to happen to anybody else, _even if_ we leave 1.4.4.4 
> Behind as if it was an American Child.

My reference to "git" was about "forking is easy". We seem to have to agree that talking is even cheaper, though ;-)

> Having said that, I do not have the resources to test and fix everything 
> that may arise from Debian being seemingly unable to update to Git 1.5.

Heh, what happent to your earlier "a few minutes for Junio to change and commit"?