Re: What's in git.git, and announcing GIT 1.4.2-rc4

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 10, 2006, 08:10 UTC
Message-ID: <7vodutvwn5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608100957050.13885@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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

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>>   - pack-objects can copy a non-delta representation of a object
>>     with the new style header straight into packs.
>>...
>>   * Hopefully not too long after 1.4.2:
>>   - New style loose objects, which use the same header format as
>>     in-pack objects, can be copied straight into packs when not
>>     deltified.  I am hoping that we can make the new-style loose
>>     objects the default in 10 to 12 weeks to give everybody time
>>     to update to 1.4 series.
>
> These are the same, no?

Yeah; I meant to say that we need to wait a while before making the new style loose object the default, since people with older git would not be able to use them.