From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:52:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999999.0712171646230.8467@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071217213049.GG13515@fieldses.org>

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> 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