Re: Ignore BASE extension

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 13, 2007, 19:43 UTC
Message-ID: <7vslb4awmf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200704131233.13979.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hello,
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.5.1.1.83.g2bfe3
>
> I've just compiled the latest version from master; and started getting 
> this message
>
> $ git add foo.c
> Ignore BASE extension
>
> What does that mean?  Should I be concerned?

The message would have said "ignoring BASE extension", but this means you used git from 'next' to update your index and HEAD and then are now running 'git add' from 'master' or older that does not have the support for BASE extension.

For description of what BASE extension does, look at log messages between master..a640e62, especially 0679f9ac.

The notice is harmless. Any extension data section that the index file can have, whose name begins with a capital letter (like 'B'), is meant to be ignorable. They enhance functionality or improve performance if understood, but an older tool that does not understand them can safely ignore and correctly operate.

Another extension, by the way, is TREE extension, which holds the cache-tree to speed up write-tree operation. I think everybody's git would understand them by now.