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Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional.

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Oct 16, 2006, 13:27 UTC
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > As for pack v4... My opinion is that nothing justifies it so far.  So if 
> > I can convince Junio there shouldn't be any v4 just yet.
> 
> The only concern I have is the commit walkers (rsync has the
> same problem as well but we honestly do not care).  They just
> grab existing packs and try to use them.  I have been wondering
> if it might be safer to mark the delta-base-offset encoded packs
> v4 to make sure the clients would get "I know only v2 and v3 but
> you fed me v4" message.

It'll get "this pack contains an unknown object type" kind of message, which is almost as good IMHO, with the same end result.

Nicolas
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Message 9 of 22 in “Recent and near future backward incompatibilities”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  2. pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional.Junio C Hamano, Oct 15, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 15, 2006
  4. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  6. Jakub NarebskiOct 15, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 16, 2006
  9. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  10. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  11. A Large Angry SCMOct 15, 2006
  12. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 15, 2006
  14. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2006
  16. Nicolas PitreOct 17, 2006
  17. A Large Angry SCMOct 15, 2006
  18. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  20. Theodore TsoOct 15, 2006
  21. Linus TorvaldsOct 15, 2006
  22. Stephen HemmingerOct 16, 2006

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