From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:03:42 GMT
Subject: Re: extra headers in commit objects
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002031456510.1681@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20100203192658.GP9553@machine.or.cz>

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Petr Baudis wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:01:17PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
> > Shouldn't an old git just ignore headers from a new git?
> > 
> > I mean, forget about the fact that somebody is doing something naughty
> > with the git protocol, ask youself if you want this rule to basically
> > prevent any backwards compatible changes with older gits.
> 
> We have done similar changes in the past and if there would be such
> a change, we can phase-in it over the course of several releases.
> I think the fall-out would not be that bad; we have some experience
> with even making Debian-stable Git compatible with new stuff. ;-)

Heh...  That's because I was crazy enough to do that work so the new 
features I implemented in the latest version could be enabled by default 
sooner.  And incidentally those features weren't controvertial at all 
which sorta helped.


Nicolas