From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:42:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs
Message-ID: <7vliietp4u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120720144337.GA31946@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But it would mean that you cannot naively run
>
>   echo $sha1 >.git/refs/heads/foo
>
> anymore. I suspect that the packed-refs conversion rooted out many
> scripts that did not use update-ref and rev-parse to access refs, but
> the above does still work today. So I suspect there would be some
> fallout. Not to mention that older versions of git would be completely
> broken, which would mean we need a lengthy deprecation period while
> everybody upgrades to versions of git that support the reading side.

We have that "core.repositoryversion" thing, so we could treat it
just like "update-index --index-version 4" to make it a "flag day
event for each repository, on the day of end-user's choice".