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Re: [PATCH 2/2] index-v4: document the entry format

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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 2, 2012, 17:13 UTC
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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> IMHO, keep this in next to avoid releasing it until we know the
>> outcome of the GSoC project. The handful of WebKit developers that use
>> Git that really benefit from index v4 can use it by building and
>> installing their own next.
>> ...
>> Its only a few months to wait and see where "v5" goes. If v5 is
>> successful, v4 will just be a minor footnote in the history of Git,
>> and other tools won't need to support v4, they can go straight to v5.
>
> You may not have noticed this, but there is no practical difference
> between keeping it in 'next' and releasing it to 'master' from the
> third-party tool's point of view.
>
> There is _only_ one way to end up with v4 version of index: running "git
> update-index --index-version 4".
Thanks, I did miss this in the series. I hereby retract my complaint. :-)
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 27 of 27 in “Prefix-compress on-disk index entries”
  1. 0/9 Prefix-compress on-disk index entriesJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  2. 1/9 varint: make it available outside the context of packJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  3. 2/9 cache.h: hide on-disk index detailsJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  4. 3/9 read-cache.c: allow unaligned mapping of the index fileJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  5. 4/9 read-cache.c: make create_from_disk() report number of bytes it consumedJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  6. 5/9 read-cache.c: report the header version we do not understandJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  7. 6/9 read-cache.c: move code to copy ondisk to incore cache to a helper functionJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  8. 7/9 read-cache.c: move code to copy incore to ondisk cache to a helper functionJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  9. 8/9 read-cache.c: read prefix-compressed names in index on-disk version v4Junio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  10. 9/9 read-cache.c: write index v4 formatJunio C Hamano, Apr 3, 2012
  11. David BarrApr 4, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2012
  14. 2/2 update-index: upgrade/downgrade on-disk index versionJunio C Hamano, Apr 4, 2012
  15. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 4, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2012
  17. David BarrApr 6, 2012
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 2, 2012
  19. David BarrMay 2, 2012
  20. 1/2 unpack-trees: preserve the index file version of originalJunio C Hamano, Apr 27, 2012
  21. 2/2 index-v4: document the entry formatJunio C Hamano, Apr 27, 2012
  22. Thomas RastApr 30, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2012
  24. Thomas RastMay 1, 2012
  25. Shawn PearceMay 2, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2012
  27. Shawn PearceMay 2, 2012

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