From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 17:13:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] index-v4: document the entry format
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJukfmnfvuU5TWk6ftJ9pG+bSMa2t1ETH=0v=ZKwsbQ2wA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vlilaikfo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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. :-)