From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:14:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999999.0712140807280.8467@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vir31x38p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> Deprecating versions before 1.5.2 (May 20 2007) feels a bit too quick,
> but seven month is almost an eternity in git timescale, and by now
> anything older than 1.5.2 can safely be called prehistoric.  Will apply.

Well, index version 1 is not gone.  It's only the version used by 
default that will change, which can be overriden with a config variable.

And even if that wasn't done, then any old Git version can just blow 
away the new index and recreate it.  So it is not like if you actually 
needed a recent version of Git to convert the repo back to the old 
format.

And all this will be effective in 1.5.5 which is still a few months 
ahead.


Nicolas