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Re: a "limbo" object-format state for empty repositories?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2026, 01:31 UTC
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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> There is some support for multiple `object-format` directives, but I
> don't know how well it works and I seem to remember that we had some
> sort of crasher bug in the past.  That would be the best possible way to
> advertise that, though, if older versions support it.

Oh, bad. Telling the other sides "I can accept this and that hash algorithm" with multiple capability advertisement is so obviously the right thing to do at the conceptual level. It would have been very nice if it worked.

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