Re: v1.5.4 plans

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 3, 2007, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsl2jh3rb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712031258460.9605@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

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> Two things I would like to see in the next version (1.5.5) as well, for 
> which we could provide early warnings now:
>
>  - repack.usedeltabaseoffset defaulting to true
>
>  - pack.indexversion defaulting to 2

I think the former would be sensible, the latter I fear might be a bit too new but I do not recall the exact version dependency.

Could you draft a patch to ReleaseNotes to explain the consequences of these changes using ordinary user's vocabulary, like:

	Starting v1.5.5, repack.usedeltabaseoffset will default to true,
	which will give denser packfile (i.e. more efficient storage).
	The downside is that git older than version X will not be able
	to use a repository packed using this setting.