Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Dec 17, 2007, 21:52 UTC
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- <alpine.LFD.0.999999.0712171646230.8467@xanadu.home>
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- <20071217213049.GG13515@fieldses.org>
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
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> By the way, just as a data point: I do keep some git repositories on > NFS, and access them from multiple machines with different git versions > (not on purpose--it's just that the machines don't all run the same > distro, so it'd be extra work to give them all the same version). I > don't use anything older than 1.5.0. If the repository became unusable > on one of those machines without warning it'd be annoying.
What the v1.5.5 release notes will say is that you'll have to set pack.indexversion=1 to remain compatible with pre-1.5.2 Git versions.
And even if you forget about it then there'll be a simple way to regain compatibility after the facts.
Nicolas