Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] setup: recognise extensions.objectFormat
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Putting code in master is OK; we can always refactor it. But once we
> add and document a user-facing config option like this, we have to
> support it forever. So that's really the step I was wondering about: are
> we sure this is what the user-facing config is going to look like?
Yup, that is an important distinction.
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> But that's sort of my point. It appears to be working, but the
> prior-version safety they think they have is not there. I think we're
> better off erring on the side of caution here, and letting them know
> forcefully that their config is bogus.
>
>> At the same time... there's extension.partialclone in pu and it does not
>> have check on repo format.
>
> IMHO it should (and we should just do it by enforcing it for all
> extensions automatically).
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>