Re: [PATCH] commit-graph: warn about incompatibilities only when trying to write

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Mar 1, 2021, 22:10 UTC

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Hi,

On Sun, 28 Feb 2021, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 26 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > I am tempted to say that we should revert c85eec7f (commit-graph:
> > when incompatible with graphs, indicate why, 2021-02-11) for the
> > upcoming release.  That would give us enough time to come up with
> > and cook the solution in 'next' in the meantime.
>
> That's probably sensible.

I agree. This close to v2.31.0, I do not want to rush things.

> Also, I noticed that we went through this whole saga in the past, see
> 25575015ca (repack: silence warnings when auto-enabled bitmaps cannot be
> built, 2019-07-31), including breaking background gc.

Sounds like it.

Thank you for your valuable feedback!