From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:08:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] add pack index v2 reading capability to git v1.4.4.4
Message-ID: <7vhcapsqoa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807160924340.2835@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Actually, it fixes a crash. Didn't 1.4.4 SIGSEGV without this on pack-v2?

I do not think it should SEGV.  The pack-idx signature was chosen rather
carefully to allow older ones to die gracefully.

    error: non-monotonic index
    error: Could not read 4a588075c54cd5902e5f4d43b9d6b0c31d0f9769

But as I said in the other message, it's tagged and pushed out already.