From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 00:24:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow OFS_DELTA objects during a push
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0905012021070.6741@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v4ow4v0xl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> The code looks correct, I am reasonably sure updated server-client
> combination would work fine, and use of the capability mechanism means
> other combinations like old pusher and new receiver, and/or new pusher and
> old receiver, should be also Ok.
> 
> I see Shawn did the same to jgit.
> 
> But I'd like to queue this in 'next', and make it official after 1.6.3
> happens.
> 
> I just do not want to repeat silly mistakes, this close to the final,
> similar to the "github needs to get stuck forever at 1.6.1" we made with
> 40c155f (push: prepare sender to receive extended ref information from the
> receiver, 2008-09-09); it was done as a good change after a discussion
> among Shawn, Daniel and I.

No problem.  Since this is fixing something that actually never worked 
before, it is therefore not what I would call a critical fix.


Nicolas