From: Stefan Beller Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:07:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 14/15] convert: add filter..process option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <509A907F-B1B5-4244-B1C7-F1190296208D@gmail.com> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Lars Schneider wrote: > > The welcome message is necessary to distinguish the long running > filter protocol (v2) from the current one-shot filter protocol (v1). > This is becomes important if a users tries to use a v1 clean/smudge > filter with the v2 git config settings. Oh I see, that's why we're at v2 now. How do you distinguish between v1 and v2? Does the welcome message need to follow a certain pattern to be recognized to make it v2+ ? > > Thanks a lot for the review, > Lars Sorry for repeating the questions (it seems I missed a lot of the prior discussion), but I think these questions may help future readers of the commit message, Thanks, Stefan