From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:32:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack.indexversion config option now defaults to 2 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Git older than version 1.5.2 (or any other git version with this option > set to 1) may revert to version 1 of the pack index by manually deleting > all .idx files and recreating them using 'git index-pack'. Communication > over the git native protocol is unaffected since the pack index is never > transferred. Rather than talk about when it does _not_ matter, wouldn't it be better to talk about when it _can_ matter? Namely when using dumb protocols, either http or rsync, with the other end being some ancient git thing (and it is worth mentioning version of what counts as 'ancient' too, I can't remember, probably means that pretty much nobody else can either). Linus